Genesis 4:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

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  • Jas 1:15 : 15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
  • Rom 7:8-9 : 8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead. 9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;
  • Heb 11:4 : 4 By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways. 11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
  • Mal 1:13 : 13 And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.
  • Rom 2:6-9 : 6 Who will give to every man his right reward: 7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life: 8 But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath, 9 Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek; 10 But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:
  • Rom 6:16 : 16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.
  • Mal 1:8 : 8 And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
  • Eccl 8:12-13 : 12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him. 13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
  • Gen 3:16 : 16 To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.
  • Gen 4:8-9 : 8 And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death. 9 And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth. 11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand; 12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth. 13 And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength.
  • Gen 19:21 : 21 And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.
  • Num 32:23 : 23 But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.
  • 2 Sam 24:23 : 23 All this does the servant of my lord the king give to the king. And Araunah said, May the Lord your God be pleased with your offering!
  • 2 Kgs 8:28 : 28 He went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the Aramaeans.
  • Job 29:4 : 4 As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;
  • Job 42:8 : 8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Prov 18:5 : 5 To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.
  • Rom 15:16 : 16 To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
  • 1 Tim 5:4 : 4 But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

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    1 And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.

    2 Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.

    3 And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.

    4 And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;

    5 But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.

    6 And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your face sad?

  • Gen 4:8-16
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    8 And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.

    9 And the Lord said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I have no idea: am I my brother's keeper?

    10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

    11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;

    12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

    13 And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength.

    14 You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.

    15 And the Lord said, Truly, if Cain is put to death, seven lives will be taken for his. And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one might put him to death.

    16 And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12 Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

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    14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

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    13 And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

    14 And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:

    15 And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

    16 To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

    17 And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

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    24 If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.

  • Job 1:11-12
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    11 But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

    12 And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

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    23 But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

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    1 Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?

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    6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

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    24 And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.

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    5 But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

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    4 And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:

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    7 For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.