◄ Jeremiah 7:5 ►
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Good News Translation
"Change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing. Be fair in your treatment of one another.

New Revised Standard Version
For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another,

Contemporary English Version
I will keep you safe only if you change your ways and are fair and honest with each other.

New American Bible
Only if you thoroughly reform your ways and your deeds; if each of you deals justly with your neighbor;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,

For if.

Jeremiah 7:3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place.

Jeremiah 4:1,2 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to me: if thou wilt take away thy stumblingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not be moved. . . .

Isaiah 1:19 If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

if ye throughly.

Judges 5:1 In that day Debbora and Barac, son of Abinoem, sung, and said:

Judges 21:12 And there were found of Jabes Galaad four hundred virgins, that had not known the bed of a man, and they brought them to the camp in Silo, into the land of Chanaan.

1 Kings 6:12,13 As for this house, which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee, which I spoke to David thy father. . . .

Isaiah 16:3 Take counsel, gather a council: make thy shadow as the night in the midday: hide them that flee, and betray not them that wander about.

Ezekiel 18:8,17 Hath not lent upon usury, nor taken any increase: hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, and hath executed true judgment between man and man: . . .

Context
Jeremiah's Message at the Temple Gate
…4Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord. 5For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,6If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own hurt,…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:17
Do not afflict your countrymen: but let every one fear his God. Because I am the Lord your God.

1 Kings 6:12
As for this house, which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfil my word to thee, which I spoke to David thy father.

Isaiah 1:19
If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

Jeremiah 4:1
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return to me: if thou wilt take away thy stumblingblocks out of my sight, thou shalt not be moved.

Jeremiah 4:2
And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth, and in judgment, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him, and shall praise him.

Jeremiah 7:3
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Make your ways and your doings good: and I will dwell with you in this place.

Jeremiah 21:12
O house of David, thus saith the Lord: Judge ye judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your ways.

Jeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 22:15
Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then well with him?

Jeremiah 26:13
Now therefore amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to the voice of the Lord your God: and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath spoken against you.

Zechariah 7:7
Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy, both itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants towards the south, and in the plain?

Jeremiah 7:4
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