Genesis 4:6

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Then the LORD said to Cain, 'Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?'

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  • Isa 1:18 : 18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
  • Luke 15:31-32 : 31 The father said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For anger kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

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    2 Later, she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel tended flocks, while Cain worked the soil.

    3 Over time, Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD.

    4 But Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering.

    5 But He did not look with favor on Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his face was downcast.

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    7 'If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.'

    8 Cain said to his brother Abel, 'Let’s go out to the field.' While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

    9 Then the LORD said to Cain, 'Where is your brother Abel?' He replied, 'I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?'

    10 The LORD said, 'What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.'

    11 'Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.'

    12 'When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.'

    13 Cain said to the LORD, 'My punishment is more than I can bear.'

    14 'Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.'

    15 But the LORD said to him, 'Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.' Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

    16 So Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

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    12 Not like Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

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    4 But the LORD said, 'Is it right for you to be angry?'

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    9 But the LORD God called out to the man and said to him, 'Where are you?'

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    4 You who tear yourself in anger—for your sake should the earth be abandoned, and the rock moved from its place?

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    18 Otherwise, the LORD will see and disapprove, and He may turn His anger away from them.

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    9 But God said to Jonah, 'Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?' And Jonah replied, 'It is right for me to be angry, even to the point of death.'

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    13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, 'What is this you have done?' The woman said, 'The serpent deceived me, and I ate.'

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    24 Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

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    12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash?

    13 That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

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    17 Because of their sinful greed, I was angry; I struck them and turned away in anger, yet they continued in their willful ways.

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    6 The Lord regretted that He had made humanity on the earth, and it deeply grieved Him.

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    7 The LORD said to Satan, 'Where have you come from?' Satan answered the LORD, 'From roaming the earth and walking back and forth on it.'

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    1 But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry.

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    24 If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.

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    26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

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    7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, 'My anger burns against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about Me as My servant Job has.'