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NASB | Genesis 4:7 "If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 4:7 "If you do well [believing Me and doing what is acceptable and pleasing to Me], will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well [but ignore My instruction], sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you [to overpower you], but you must master it." |
Subject: Could cain do well? |
Bible Note: You oversimplify. 'So David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, "Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring me word that I may know their number."...God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel.' --1 Chronicles 21:2,7 "Now the LORD was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice" --1 Kings 11:9 "Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, And You can not look on wickedness with favor. " --Habakkuk 1:13 "You shall not behave thus toward the LORD your God, for every abominable act which the LORD hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods." --Deuteronomy 12:31 "For I, the LORD, love justice, I hate robbery in the burnt offering; And I will faithfully give them their recompense And make an everlasting covenant with them." --Isaiah 61:8 "'Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love perjury; for all these are what I hate,' declares the LORD." --Zechariah 8:17 "Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate." --Revelation 2:6 God is pleased to demonstrate His holiness and his justice, and we can even say biblically that God ordains that evil arises for his own glory, but that is not the same as saying he is pleased with our sinful ways. Thank YOU for trying! :) --Joe! |