Genesis 4:7

Free Bible Version

If you were doing what's right, then you'd be looking happy. But if you don't do what's right, then sin will be like an animal crouching outside your home, ready to pounce on you. It wants to have you, but you must be the one in control.”

Cross References

Genesis 19:21

“Fine—I'll do as you ask,” he replied. “I won't destroy this town you've mentioned.

Genesis 3:16

He told Eve, “I will make pregnancy much more difficult, and giving birth will be very painful. However, you will still desire your husband, but he will have control over you.”

2 Samuel 24:23

Your Majesty, I, Araunah, give it all to the king.” Araunah concluded by saying, “May the Lord your God respond positively to you.”

2 Kings 8:28

Ahaziah went with Joram, son of Ahab, to fight against Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead. The Arameans wounded Joram,

Job 11:14

if you get rid of your sins and don't let wickedness continue in your life,

Job 11:15

then you would be able to hold your head high in innocence, you will be firm and unafraid.

Job 29:4

When I was young and strong, God was my friend and spoke to me in my home.

Job 42:8

So take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job, and you shall offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray on your behalf and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your foolishness, because you have not told the truth about me, as my servant Job did.”

Proverbs 18:5

It's not right to show favoritism to the guilty and rob the innocent of justice.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifices given by the wicked are obnoxious, worse still when they're offered with evil motives.

Jeremiah 3:12

Now go and announce this message to the north: Come back, unfaithful Israel, declares the Lord. I won't be angry with you anymore, because I am merciful, declares the Lord. I won't be angry forever.

Jeremiah 6:20

What's the point of offering me frankincense from Sheba or sweet calamus from a faraway land? I don't accept your burnt offerings; I'm not pleased with your sacrifices.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you who forgives sin and passes over the rebellion of those who are left of his special people? You do not remain angry forever because you delight in showing faithful love.

Malachi 1:10

I really wish one of you would shut the Temple doors to stop you lighting pointless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept offerings from you.

Malachi 1:13

You say, “All this is too much trouble!” and you sniff scornfully at it, says the Lord Almighty. But when you bring animals that are stolen or crippled or sick and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept what you're giving? asks the Lord.

Malachi 1:8

When you offer a blind animal as a sacrifice, isn't that wrong? Or when you offer an animal that is crippled or sick, isn't that wrong? Would you give such gifts to your governor? Would he be pleased with you? Would he be kind and show favor to you? asks the Lord Almighty.

Numbers 32:23

But if you fail to do this, you will clearly be sinning against the Lord, and the consequences of your sin will catch up with you.

Acts 10:35

In every nation God accepts those who respect him, and do what is good and right.

Romans 12:1

So I encourage you, my brothers and sisters, because of God's compassion for you, to dedicate your bodies as a living offering that is holy and pleasing to God. This is the logical way to worship.

Romans 14:18

Anyone who serves Christ in this way pleases God, and is appreciated by others.

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the foreigners, like a priest sharing God's good news, so that they could become an acceptable offering, made holy by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:12

Don't let sin have control over your mortal body, don't give in to its temptations,

Romans 6:16

Don't you realize that if you make yourselves someone's slaves, obeying their orders, then you are slaves to the one you obey? If you are slaves of sin, the result is death; if you obey God, the result is you are made right with him.

Ephesians 1:6

So we praise him for his glorious grace that he so kindly gave us in his beloved Son.

1 Timothy 5:4

For the Christian responsibility of a widow's children or grandchildren is to do their duty for their own family, and repay their parents by helping them out. This is what pleases God.

Hebrews 11:4

By trusting him Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain, and as a result God identified him as someone who lived right. God showed this by accepting his offering. Even though Abel has been dead for a long time, he still speaks to us through what he did.

James 1:15

Such desires lead to sin, and sin, when it's fully developed, causes death.

1 Peter 2:5

you also become like living stones, being built into a spiritual house. You are a holy priesthood that offers spiritual sacrifices that God welcomes through Jesus Christ.