Genesis 4:7

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

Cross References (28)

  • James 1:15 (67)

    Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

  • Romans 2:6–10 (42)

    God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”

  • Isaiah 3:10–11 (32)

    Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

  • Romans 6:16 (29)

    Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are s

  • Hebrews 11:4 (27)

    By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approva

  • Numbers 32:23 (24)

    But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.

  • Romans 12:1 (21)

    Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing

  • Romans 7:8–9 (21)

    But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from t

  • Proverbs 21:27 (20)

    The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

  • Malachi 1:13 (19)

    You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that

  • Ecclesiastes 8:12–13 (17)

    Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fe

  • Malachi 1:10 (16)

    “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take n

  • Acts 10:35 (15)

    but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.

  • Malachi 1:8 (14)

    When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wron

  • Romans 14:18 (13)

    For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.

  • Jeremiah 6:20 (11)

    What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; yo

  • 1 Peter 2:5 (9)

    you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifi

  • Proverbs 18:5 (9)

    Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.

  • Job 42:8 (8)

    So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My se

  • Genesis 3:16 (7)

    To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desi

  • Romans 15:16 (7)

    to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles migh

  • 2 Samuel 24:23 (6)

    O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

  • Genesis 4:8–13 (4)

    Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against

  • 1 Timothy 5:4 (4)

    But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay thei

  • Job 29:4 (3)

    when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

  • Ephesians 1:6 (3)

    to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

  • Genesis 19:21 (3)

    “Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.

  • 2 Kings 8:28 (0)

    Then Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead, and the Arameans wounded