Genesis 4:7
If thou do well, shall thou not be accepted? And if thou do not well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire shall be for thee, and thou shall rule over it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6And LORD said to Cain, Why are thou angry? And why has thy countenance fallen?
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 19:21And he said to him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou have spoken.
2 Samuel 24:23All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king. And Araunah said to the king, LORD thy God accept thee.
Job 29:4as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,
Proverbs 18:5To respect the person of a wicked man is not good, [nor] to turn aside a righteous man in judgment.
Ecclesiastes 8:12Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 4:7-8
6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? 7 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. God is here reasoning with Cain, to convince him of the sin and folly of his anger and discontent, and to bring him into a good temper again, that further mischief might be prevented. It is an instance of God's patience and condescending goodness that he would deal… Read the whole commentary →