Genesis 4:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

If thou doest well

Be accepted

Job 29:4

Proverbs 21:27

Hebrews 11:4

Sin

Genesis 4:8

Romans 7:8

James 1:15

Bible References

If thou doest well

And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.

All this does the servant of my lord the king give to the king. And Araunah said, May the Lord your God be pleased with your offering!

He went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the Aramaeans.

And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.

To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.

Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.

And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.

But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.

To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.

To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

Be accepted

As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!

By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.

Sin

And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.

But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.