Hebrews 11:4

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

Genesis 4:3

1 John 3:11

A more

Jude 1:11

He obtained

And by

Hebrews 12:1

Genesis 4:10

Matthew 23:35

Bible References

Faith

And it cometh to pass at the end of days that Cain bringeth from the fruit of the ground a present to Jehovah;

because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

A more

and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright is His delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination, Much more when in wickedness he bringeth it.

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

woe to them! because in the way of Cain they did go on, and to the deceit of Balaam for reward they did rush, and in the gainsaying of Korah they did perish.

He obtained

and fire cometh out from before Jehovah, and consumeth on the altar the burnt-offering, and the fat; and all the people see, and cry aloud, and fall on their faces.

And there falleth a fire of Jehovah, and consumeth the burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and the water that is in the trench it hath licked up.

that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar:

from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

And by

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

And He saith, 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;