If you do well, is there not exaltation? And if you do not do well, sin is lying at the door. And its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.

And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? He said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?

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

And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all day long.

And Jehovah regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved to His heart.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And Jehovah smelled a soothing aroma. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again smite every living thing as I have done.

But the men of Sodom were exceedingly evil and sinful before Jehovah.

And Jehovah said, The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is exceedingly heavy.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house.

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may keep alive the seed of our father.

Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

But Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah killed him.

And the thing which he did made the eye of Jehovah quiver; therefore He killed him also.

because the Law brings about wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.

Whoever produces sin also produces lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother remains in death.