Genesis 4:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then the LORD said to Cain,“Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come, let’s consider your options,” says the LORD.“Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
  • Luke 15:31-32 : 31 Then the father said to him,‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours. 32 It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

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    2Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground.

    3At the designated time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering to the LORD.

    4But Abel brought some of the firstborn of his flock– even the fattest of them. And the LORD was pleased with Abel and his offering,

    5but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

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    7Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”

    8Cain 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.

    9Then the LORD said to Cain,“Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied,“I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?”

    10But the LORD said,“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

    11So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

    12When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

    13Then Cain said to the LORD,“My punishment is too great to endure!

    14Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

    15But the LORD said to him,“All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the LORD put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

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

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    12not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

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    4The LORD said,“Are you really so very angry?”

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

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    4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

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    18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

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    9God said to Jonah,“Are you really so very angry about the little plant?” And he said,“I am as angry as I could possibly be!”

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    11And the LORD God said,“Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

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    13So the LORD God said to the woman,“What is this you have done?” And the woman replied,“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”

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    24Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

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    12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

    13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

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    17I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

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    6The LORD regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.

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    24If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!”

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

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