"If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire [is] for you, but you should rule over it."

Then the LORD 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 earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every intent of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.

And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

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

And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

But the men of Sodom [were] exceedingly wicked and sinful against the LORD.

And the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave,

Now 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 preserve the lineage of our father."

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

But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD killed him.

And the thing which he did displeased the LORD; therefore He killed him also.

because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law [there is] no transgression.

The sting of death [is] sin, and the strength of sin [is] the law.

Whoever commits sin also commits 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 abides in death.