Genesis 4:7
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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To 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.
Genesis 19:21And 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 24:23All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.
Job 29:4As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle?
Proverbs 18:5It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to decline from the truth of judgment.
Ecclesiastes 8:12But 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.
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 →