Bible Cross References
then I
Proverbs 19:21
People may plan all kinds of things, but the LORD's will is going to be done.
Lamentations 3:37
The will of the Lord alone is always carried out.
James 4:13-15
13
Now listen to me, you that say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to a certain city, where we will stay a year and go into business and make a lot of money."
14
You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.
15
What you should say is this: "If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that."
why
Genesis 4:8-16
8
Then Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out in the fields." When they were out in the fields, Cain turned on his brother and killed him.
9
The LORD asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" He answered, "I don't know. Am I supposed to take care of my brother?"
10
Then the LORD said, "Why have you done this terrible thing? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground, like a voice calling for revenge.
11
You are placed under a curse and can no longer farm the soil. It has soaked up your brother's blood as if it had opened its mouth to receive it when you killed him.
12
If you try to grow crops, the soil will not produce anything; you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."
13
And Cain said to the LORD, "This punishment is too hard for me to bear.
14
You are driving me off the land and away from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me."
15
But the LORD answered, "No. If anyone kills you, seven lives will be taken in revenge." So the LORD put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who met him not to kill him.
16
And Cain went away from the LORD's presence and lived in a land called "Wandering," which is east of Eden.
Genesis 9:5
If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life.
Genesis 9:6
Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.
2 Samuel 14:6
Sir, I had two sons, and one day they got into a quarrel out in the fields, where there was no one to separate them, and one of them killed the other.
2 Samuel 14:7
And now, sir, all my relatives have turned against me and are demanding that I hand my son over to them, so that they can kill him for murdering his brother. If they do this, I will be left without a son. They will destroy my last hope and leave my husband without a son to keep his name alive."
Acts 28:4
The natives saw the snake hanging on Paul's hand and said to one another, "This man must be a murderer, but Fate will not let him live, even though he escaped from the sea."