Genesis 4:7

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, habitual sin ·missing the mark· crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

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In The King 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.

In Context

6Adonai said to Cain [Acquisition], “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

8Cain [Acquisition] said to Abel [Vanity, Mourning], his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain [Acquisition] rose up against Abel [Vanity, Mourning], his brother, and murdered + 4:8. Quoted in 1 John 3:12 him.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:16To the woman he said, 1 “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. 2 In pain you will bear children. 1 Your desire will be for your husband, 2 and he will have authority over you.”

Genesis 19:21He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

Proverbs 18:5To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, 2 nor to deprive the innocent of mishpat ·justice·. 1

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 →

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