Cross references
Genesis 4:2
Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel.
Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.
Genesis 4:2 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 John 3:12 (6 votes) and 1 John 3:15 (5 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 2 to 1 John 3.
Which verses does Genesis 4:2 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- 1 John 3:126 votes
Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
- 1 John 3:155 votes
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.
- Luke 11:514 votes
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, all of it will be charged to this generation.
- Genesis 47:33 votes
“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”
- John 8:443 votes
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
- 1 John 3:103 votes
By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
- Exodus 3:12 votes
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Psalm 78:70–722 votes
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds; from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance. …
- Genesis 3:231 vote
Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
- Genesis 4:25–261 vote
And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.” And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
- Genesis 9:201 vote
- Genesis 30:29–311 vote
- Genesis 37:131 vote
- Genesis 46:32–341 vote
- Psalm 127:31 vote
- Amos 7:151 vote
Which verses point to Genesis 4:2?
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