Genesis 4:7
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
Note Or it desires to control you
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.
Note be accepted: or, have the excellency
Note unto…: or, subject unto thee
If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- If thou doest well
- Genesis 19:21; 2 Samuel 24:23; 2 Kings 8:28; Job 42:8; Proverbs 18:5; Ecclesiastes 8:12, 13; Isaiah 3:10, 11; Jeremiah 6:20; Malachi 1:8, 10, 13; Acts 10:35; Romans 2:7–10; Romans 12:1; Romans 14:18; Romans 15:16; Ephesians 1:6; 1 Timothy 5:4; 1 Peter 2:5
- be accepted
- or, have the excellency.
- Job 29:4; Proverbs 21:27; Hebrews 11:4
- sin
- Genesis 4:8–13; Romans 7:8, 9; James 1:15
- unto thee, or, subject unto thee
- Genesis 3:16