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Genesis 4:5

but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

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Genesis 4:5 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hebrews 11:4 (17 votes) and Job 5:2 (9 votes). 39 other verses point back to it. It links with 24 other books, from Genesis 27 to Jude 1.

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Which verses does Genesis 4:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Hebrews 11:417 votes

    By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

  2. Job 5:29 votes

    For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

  3. Isaiah 3:10–113 votes

    Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor. Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

  4. Luke 15:28–303 votes

    The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. …

  5. Psalm 20:32 votes

    May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah

  6. Matthew 20:152 votes

    Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

  7. Acts 13:452 votes

    But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

  8. Genesis 31:21 vote

    And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

  9. Genesis 31:51 vote

    and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.

  10. Numbers 16:151 vote

    Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”

Which verses point to Genesis 4:5?

The 10 strongest of 39.