Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Faith
A more
He obtained
And by
Bible References
Faith
1 John 3:11
for this is the injunction which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: not as Cain who was of the evil one, and slew his brother;
A more
Hebrews 9:22
And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood; and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
Titus 1:16
They profess to know God, but in works deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every thing that is good void of understanding.
Jude 1:11
Wo unto them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and been carried away by Balaam's error, the love of lucre, and perished as in the contradiction of Korah.
He obtained
Matthew 23:35
that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Luke 11:51
who perished between the altar and the temple. Verily I tell you, it shall be required of this generation.
And by
Hebrews 12:1
Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us,
Matthew 23:35
that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.