Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And Jehovah had regard for Abel and his offering,

So Jehovah said to Cain, Why does your anger burn? And why has your countenance fallen?

Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

And He said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to Me from the ground.

When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.

Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have rushed out in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

He who produces sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this, the Son of God was made known, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome evil. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the Word of God abides in you, and you have overcome evil.

When anyone hears the Word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is that which was sown by the wayside.

The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one.

And David behaved wisely in all his ways, and Jehovah was with him.

Therefore, when Saul saw that he behaved very wisely, he was afraid of him.

Thus Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you.

For he took his soul in his own hands and killed the Philistine, and Jehovah brought about a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then would you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?

And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who among all your servants is as faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, who goes at your bidding, and is honorable in all your house?

And the king said, You shall be executed to death, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house!

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

An unjust man is an abomination to the just; and he who is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked.

And the governor said, Why, what evil has He done? But they cried out all the more, saying, Let Him be crucified!

Jesus answered them, Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know Him who sent Me.

He who hates Me hates My Father also.

Moreover, that the Word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause.

Pilate said to Him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, I find no fault in Him at all.

Then they all cried again, saying, Not this Man, but Barabbas! Now Barabbas was a robber.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they, who received the Law by the command of angels and did not keep it, killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One,

For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans,

In this regard, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same overflow of dissipation, blaspheming.

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

in order that on you may come all the righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required from this generation.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.