If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
2 Samuel 11:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) 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 couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, “I am with child.”
When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;
But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.”
Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the cock crowed.
Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”