Genesis 4:7 — If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is cro… — ESV | maBible

Read Genesis 4:7 (English Standard Version) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Genesis 4.7, Genesis 4v7, Gen. 4:7. If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”

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7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”

Passage themes

Doing good pleases God — If thou doest well
The accepted offering — shalt thou not be accepted?
Sin lying in wait — sin lieth at the door
The desire to master — unto thee shall be his desire

Notes and references

4:7 Eccles. 8:12, 13; Isa. 3:10, 11; Rom. 2:6-11
Hebrew will there not be a lifting up [of your face]?
4:7 ch. 3:16
Or is toward

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About this book

Author: Moïse · Written: XVe – XIIIe siècle av. J.-C. · Reading time: ≈ 3h30 · Characters: Adam, Ève, Noé, Abraham (Abram), Sara (Saraï), Isaac, Jacob (Israël), Joseph

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