Genesis 4:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ 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.”

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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.”

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."

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.

Genesis 4:7 Cross References

Genesis 19:21

He said to him, “Very well, I grant you this favor too and will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, “I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

2 Samuel 24:23

All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God respond favorably to you.”

2 Kings 8:28

He went with Joram son of Ahab to wage war against King Hazael of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, where the Arameans wounded Joram.

Job 11:14

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness reside in your tents.

Job 11:15

Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure and will not fear.

Job 29:4

when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,

Job 42:8

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done.”

Proverbs 18:5

It is not right to be partial to the guilty or to subvert the innocent in judgment.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when brought with evil intent.

Jeremiah 3:12

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: Return, faithless Israel, says the Lord. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, says the Lord; I will not be angry forever.

Jeremiah 6:20

Of what use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.

Malachi 1:10

Oh, that someone among you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hands.

Malachi 1:13

“What a weariness this is,” you say, and you sniff at it, says the Lord of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.

Malachi 1:8

When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not wrong? Try presenting that to your governor; will he be pleased with you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 32:23

But if you do not do this, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

Acts 10:35

but in every people anyone who fears him and practices righteousness is acceptable to him.

Romans 12:1

I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, on the basis of God’s mercy, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable act of worship.

Romans 14:18

The one who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and has human approval.

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:12

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, so that you obey their desires.

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

1 Timothy 5:4

If a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some repayment to their parents, for this is pleasing in God’s sight.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain’s. Through this he received approval as righteous, God himself giving approval to his gifts; he died, but through his faith he still speaks.

James 1:15

then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.

1 Peter 2:5

like living stones let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.