Genesis 4:7

Holman Christian Standard Bible

If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

Cross References

Genesis 19:21

And he said to him, “All right, I’ll grant your request about this matter too and will not demolish the town you mentioned.

Genesis 3:16

He said to the woman: I will intensify your labor pains; you will bear children in anguish. Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you.

2 Samuel 24:23

My king, Araunah gives everything here to the king.” Then he said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.”

2 Kings 8:28

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

Job 11:14

if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it, and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents —

Job 11:15

then you will hold your head high, free from fault. You will be firmly established and unafraid.

Job 29:4

I would be as I was in the days of my youth when God’s friendship rested on my tent,

Job 42:8

Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you. I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.”

Proverbs 18:5

It is not good to show partiality to the guilty by perverting the justice due the innocent.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable — how much more so when he brings it with ulterior motives!

Jeremiah 3:12

Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say: Return, unfaithful Israel. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will not look on you with anger, for I am unfailing in My love. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will not be angry forever.

Jeremiah 6:20

What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, removing iniquity and passing over rebellion for the remnant of His inheritance? He does not hold on to His anger forever, because He delights in faithful love.

Malachi 1:10

“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

Malachi 1:13

You also say: “Look, what a nuisance! ” “And you scorn it,” says the Lord of Hosts. “You bring stolen, lame, or sick animals. You bring this as an offering! Am I to accept that from your hands? ” asks the Lord.

Malachi 1:8

“When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong? Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor? ” asks the Lord of Hosts.

Numbers 32:23

But if you don’t do this, you will certainly sin against the Lord; be sure your sin will catch up with you.

Acts 10:35

but in every nation the person who fears Him and does righteousness is acceptable to Him.

Romans 12:1

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

Romans 14:18

Whoever serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of God’s good news. My purpose is 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 body, so that you obey its desires.

Romans 6:16

Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey — either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.

James 1:15

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

1 Peter 2:5

you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.