Genesis 4:7
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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.

Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

Romans 6:16
Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice.

Numbers 32:23
But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin against God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you.

Job 11:14
If thou wilt put away from thee the iniquity that is in thy hand, and let not injustice remain in thy tabernacle:

Job 11:15
Then mayst thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be steadfast, and shalt not fear.

Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and proclaim these words towards the north, and thou shalt say: Return, O rebellious Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not turn away my face from you: for I am holy, saith the Lord, and I will not be angry for ever.

Micah 7:18
Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.

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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.

If thou doest well.

Genesis 19:21 And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.

2 Samuel 24:23 All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.

2 Kings 8:28 He went also with Joram, son of Achab, to fight against Hazael, king of Syria, in Ramoth Galaad, and the Syrians wounded Joram:

Job 42:8 Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.

Proverbs 18:5 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.

Ecclesiastes 8:12,13 But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face. . . .

Isaiah 3:10,11 Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings. . . .

Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Malachi 1:8,10,13 If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? offer it to thy prince, if he will be pleased with it, or if he will regard thy face, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Acts 10:35 But in every nation, he that feareth him and worketh justice is acceptable to him.

Romans 2:7-10 To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life: . . .

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

Romans 14:18 For he that in this serveth Christ pleaseth God and is approved of men.

Romans 15:16 That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles: sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.

Ephesians 1:6 Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son.

1 Timothy 5:4 But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house and to make a return of duty to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.

1 Peter 2:5 Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

be accepted.

Job 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?

Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.

Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh.

sin.

Genesis 4:8-13 And Cain said to Abel his brother: Let us go forth abroad. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him. . . .

Romans 7:8,9 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. . . .

James 1:15 Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

unto thee, or, subject unto thee.

Genesis 3:16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

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Context
Cain and Abel
6And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen? 7If 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.
Lexicon
If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you do what is right,
תֵּיטִיב֙ (tê·ṭîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3190: To be good, well, glad, or pleasing

{will}
הֲל֤וֹא (hă·lō·w)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

you not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

be accepted?
שְׂאֵ֔ת (śə·’êṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7613: An elevation, leprous scab, elation, cheerfulness, exaltation in rank, character

But if
וְאִם֙ (wə·’im)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you refuse to do what is right,
תֵיטִ֔יב (ṯê·ṭîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3190: To be good, well, glad, or pleasing

sin
חַטָּ֣את (ḥaṭ·ṭāṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

is crouching
רֹבֵ֑ץ (rō·ḇêṣ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7257: To crouch, be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed

at your door;
לַפֶּ֖תַח (lap·pe·ṯaḥ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6607: An opening, door, entrance way

you are
וְאֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ (wə·’ê·le·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

its object of desire,
תְּשׁ֣וּקָת֔וֹ (tə·šū·qā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8669: A longing

but you
וְאַתָּ֖ה (wə·’at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

must master
תִּמְשָׁל־ (tim·šāl-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4910: To rule, have dominion, reign

it.”
בּֽוֹ׃ (bōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


Additional Translations
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.”If you do well, shall you not be accepted? and if you do not well, sin lies at the door. And to you shall be his desire, and you shall rule over him.

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.

Hast thou not sinned if thou hast brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to thee shall be his submission, and thou shalt rule over him.

If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with confidence]? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And to thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

If you do well, will it not 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."

Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'
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