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Genesis 4:7

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7yIf you do well, will you not be accepted?2 And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. zIts desire is for3 you, and you must rule over it.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2Hebrew will there not be a lifting up [of your face]?
  2. 3Or to, or toward, or against (see 3:16)

Cross references

  1. yEccles. 8:12, 13; Isa. 3:10, 11; Rom. 2:6–11
  2. zch. 3:16

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

CSBChristian 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.”

NLTNew Living Translation

You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If you do well will I not accept you? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

KJV 1900King James Version

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.