Bible Verses about โabel and cainโ
The Bible contains 34 verses about abel and cain across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โthat on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.โ
โBy faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.โ
โWhoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.โ
โYahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"โ
โIf you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."โ
โThe man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with Yahweh's help."โ
โAgain she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.โ
โAdam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, "for God has appointed me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him."โ
โCain said to Abel, his brother, "Let's go into the field." It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.โ
โbut he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.โ
โYahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.โ
โYahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?โ
โAbel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,โ
โYahweh said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.โ
โFrom now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."โ
โunlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.โ
โAs time passed, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground.โ
โNow you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.โ
โCain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.โ
โBehold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."โ
โCain went out from Yahweh's presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.โ
โFor this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;โ
โCain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.โ
โLamech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.โ
โIf Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times."โ
โThere was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.โ
โZillah also gave birth to Tubal Cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron. Tubal Cain's sister was Naamah.โ
โfrom the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.โ
โHis brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.โ
โLamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.โ
โTo Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.โ
โAdah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.โ
โto Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.โ
โWoe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.โ
