CAIN


Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

GEN 4:1  Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth 
to Cain. She said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man."

3  In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an 
offering to the LORD.

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

5  but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was 
very angry, and his face was downcast.

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

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 master it."

8  Now Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." And 
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?" "I don't 
know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"

10  The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries 
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; if anyone kills Cain, he 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 lived in the land of Nod, 
east of Eden.

17  Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to 
Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.

18  To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and 
Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of 
Lamech.

HEB 11:4  By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By 
faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his 
offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

1JO 3:12  Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered 
his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil 
and his brother's were righteous.

JUD 1:11  Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed 
for profit into Balaam's error; they have been destroyed in Korah's 
rebellion.

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