Genesis 4:7 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ If you behave well, will you not receive? But if you behave badly, will not sin at once be present at the door? And so its desire will be within you, and you will be dominated by it."

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it.

Common English Bible

⁷ If you do the right thing, won’t you be accepted? But if you don’t do the right thing, sin will be waiting at the door ready to strike! It will entice you, but you must rule over it.”

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ If thou do well, shalt thou not receive? But if ill, shall not sin forthwith be present at the door? But the lust thereof shall be under thee, and thou shalt have dominion over it.

English Standard Version 2016

⁷ If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”

Genesis 4:7 Cross References

Genesis 19:21

And he said to him: "Behold, even now, I have heard your petitions about this, not to overturn the city on behalf of which you have spoken.

Genesis 3:16

To the woman, he also said: "I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband's power, and he shall have dominion over you."

2 Samuel 24:23

All these things Araunah gave, as a king to a king. And Araunah said to the king, "May the Lord your God accept your vow."

2 Kings 8:28

Also, he went with Joram, the son of Ahab, in order to fight against Hazael, the king of Syria, at Ramoth Gilead. And the Syrians had wounded Joram.

Job 11:14

If you would send away from you the iniquity that is in your hand, and not let injustice remain in your tabernacle,

Job 11:15

then you would be able to lift up your face without blemish, and you would be steadfast and unafraid.

Job 29:4

I was then just as in the days of my youth, when God was privately in my tabernacle.

Job 42:8

Therefore, have seven bulls and seven rams brought to you, and go to my servant Job, and offer these as a holocaust for yourselves. But also, my servant Job will pray for you; I will accept his face, so that foolishness will not be imputed to you. For you have not been speaking correctly about me, as my servant Job has done.

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to accept the character of the impious, so as to turn away from true judgment.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifices of the impious are abominable, because they are offered out of wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:12

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and you shall say: Return, O apostate Israel, says the Lord. For I will not avert my face from you. For I am holy, says the Lord, and I will not be angry forever.

Jeremiah 6:20

For what reason are you bringing me frankincense from Sheba, and sweet smelling reeds from a far away land? Your holocausts are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me."

Micah 7:18

What God is like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? No longer will he send forth his fury, because he is willing to be merciful.

Malachi 1:10

Who is there among you that would close the doors and enflame my altar without pay? I have no favor in you, says the Lord of hosts. And I will not accept a gift from your hand.

Malachi 1:13

And you have said, "Behold our labor," and you have exhaled it away, says the Lord of hosts. And you brought in by plunder the lame, and the sick, and brought it in as a gift. How can I receive this from your hand, says the Lord?

Malachi 1:8

If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is this not evil? And if you offer the lame and the sick, is this not evil? Offer it to your leader, if he will be pleased with it, or if he will accept your face, says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 32:23

But if you do not do what you have said, no one could doubt that you will have sinned against God. And know this: your sin shall overtake you.

Acts 10:35

But within every nation, whoever fears him and works justice is acceptable to him.

Romans 12:1

And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.

Romans 14:18

For he who serves Christ in this, pleases God and is proven before men.

Romans 15:16

so that I may be a minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles, sanctifying the Gospel of God, in order that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and may be sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:12

Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.

Romans 6:16

Do you not know to whom you are offering yourselves as servants under obedience? You are the servants of whomever you obey: whether of sin, unto death, or of obedience, unto justice.

Ephesians 1:6

for the praise of the glory of his grace, with which he has gifted us in his beloved Son.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let her first learn to manage her own household, and to fulfill, in turn, her own obligation to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith, Abel offered to God a much better sacrifice than that of Cain, through which he obtained testimony that he was just, in that God offered testimony to his gifts. And through that sacrifice, he still speaks to us, though he is dead.

James 1:15

Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces death.

1 Peter 2:5

be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.