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.”
Job 11:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness reside in your tents. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, And let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you put sin out of your hand and far away from you and let not evil dwell in your tents; American Standard Version (1901) If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, And let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents. Common English Bible if you throw out the sin in your hands and don’t let injustice dwell in your tents, Catholic Public Domain Version If you would send away from you the iniquity that is in your hand, and not let injustice remain in your tabernacle, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and lot not injustice remain in thy tabernacle: |
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.”
Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored, if you remove unrighteousness from your tents,
teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
“Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore to you your rightful place.
I will study the way that is blameless. When shall I attain it? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;
When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Astartes from among you. Direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”