If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
2 Samuel 11:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. So Joab sent [him] Uriah. American Standard Version (1901) And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. Common English Bible Then David sent a message to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David. Catholic Public Domain Version Then David sent to Joab, saying, "Send me Uriah, the Hittite." And Joab sent Uriah to David. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And David sent to Joab, saying: Send me Urias the Hethite. And Joab sent Urias to David. |
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the people fared and how the war was going.
No one who conceals transgressions will prosper, but one who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,
But he denied it before all of them, saying, “I do not know what you are talking about.”
Then he began to curse, and he swore an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment the cock crowed.
Then Saul said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, so that I may worship the Lord your God.”