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Jeremiah 7:5

"For if you thoroughly change your ways and your behavior, if you thoroughly and honestly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Condescension of God;   Integrity;   Repentance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Justice;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Widow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ethics;   Hypocrisy;   Lamentations, Theology of;   Wealth;   Zechariah, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abijah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Election;   Hope;   Jeremiah;   Jerusalem;   Justice;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Habakkuk;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Reformation ;   Self-Examination;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Reformation;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jeremiah (2);   Josiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Duty;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Instead, if you really correct your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another,
Hebrew Names Version
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
King James Version
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
English Standard Version
"For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another,
New American Standard Bible
"For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor,
New Century Version
You must change your lives and do what is right. Be fair to each other.
World English Bible
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Geneva Bible (1587)
For if you amende and redresse your waies and your woorkes: if you execute iudgement betweene a man and his neighbour,
Legacy Standard Bible
For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor,
Berean Standard Bible
For if you really change your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
Contemporary English Version
I will keep you safe only if you change your ways. Be fair and honest with each other.
Complete Jewish Bible
No, but if you really improve your ways and actions; if you really administer justice between people;
Darby Translation
But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice between a man and his neighbour,
Easy-to-Read Version
If you change your lives and do good things, I will let you live in this place. You must be fair to each other.
George Lamsa Translation
For if you amend your ways and your doings, you are the temple of the LORD; if you execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Good News Translation
"Change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing. Be fair in your treatment of one another.
Lexham English Bible
For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor,
Literal Translation
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For yf ye will amende youre waies and councels, yf ye wil iudge right betwixte a man and his neghboure:
American Standard Version
For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Bible in Basic English
For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Nay, but if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour;
King James Version (1611)
For if ye throughly amend your waies and your doings, if you throughly execute iudgement betweene a man and his neighbour:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But rather in deede amende your wayes and counsels, and iudge right betwixt a man and his neighbour,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For if ye thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
English Revised Version
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For if ye blessen youre weies, and your studies; if ye doon doom bitwixe a man and his neiybore;
Update Bible Version
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Webster's Bible Translation
For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
New English Translation
You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.
New King James Version
"For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor,
New Living Translation
But I will be merciful only if you stop your evil thoughts and deeds and start treating each other with justice;
New Life Bible
For if you for sure change your ways and what you do for the better, if you are fair as you judge between a man and his neighbor,
New Revised Standard
For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, if ye shall thoroughly amend, your ways, and your doings, - Shall thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgment between a man and his neighbour,
Revised Standard Version
"For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly execute justice one with another,
Young's Literal Translation
For, if ye do thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If ye do judgment thoroughly Between a man and his neighbour,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,

Contextual Overview

1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2"Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house and proclaim there this word and say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who enter by these gates to worship the LORD.'" 3Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Change your ways and your behavior, and I will let you live in this place. 4"Do not trust in the deceptive and lying words [of the false prophets who claim that Jerusalem will be protected by God because of the temple], saying, 'This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.' 5"For if you thoroughly change your ways and your behavior, if you thoroughly and honestly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,6if you do not oppress the transient and the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood [by oppression and by unjust judicial murders] in Jerusalem, nor follow after other gods to your own ruin, 7then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers [to live in] forever and ever. 8"Behold, you are trusting in deceptive and useless words that bring no benefit. 9"Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear [oaths] falsely, offer sacrifices or burn incense to Baal, and follow after other gods that you have not known, 10and [then dare to] come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My Name, and say, 'We are protected and set free [by this act of religious ritual]!'—only to go on with this wickedness and these disgusting and loathsome things?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For if: Jeremiah 7:3, Jeremiah 4:1, Jeremiah 4:2, Isaiah 1:19

if ye thoroughly: Judges 5:1, Judges 21:12, 1 Kings 6:12, 1 Kings 6:13, Isaiah 16:3, Ezekiel 18:8, Ezekiel 18:17

Reciprocal: Proverbs 23:10 - fatherless Jeremiah 35:15 - ye shall dwell Amos 5:15 - establish Zechariah 7:7 - cried Zechariah 7:9 - saying Matthew 7:12 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
So Noah did this; according to all that God commanded him, that is what he did.
Exodus 39:32
Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished; and the Israelites did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses; that is what they did.
Exodus 40:16
Thus Moses did; in accordance with all that the LORD commanded him, so he did.
Psalms 119:6
Then I will not be ashamed When I look [with respect] to all Your commandments [as my guide].
Matthew 3:15
But Jesus replied to him, "Permit it just now; for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then John permitted [it and baptized] Him.
Luke 8:21
But He answered, "My mother and My brothers are these who listen to the word of God and do it!"
John 2:5
His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it."
John 13:17
"If you know these things, you are blessed [happy and favored by God] if you put them into practice [and faithfully do them].
Philippians 2:8
After He was found in [terms of His] outward appearance as a man [for a divinely-appointed time], He humbled Himself [still further] by becoming obedient [to the Father] to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Hebrews 5:8
Although He was a Son [who had never been disobedient to the Father], He learned [active, special] obedience through what He suffered.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings,.... Or, "if ye make your ways good, and do your works well", which is what is exhorted to Jeremiah 7:3, and respects the duties of the moral law; which are more acceptable to God than legal sacrifices, when done from right principles, and with right views, from love, in faith, and to the glory of God; which is doing good works well; the particulars of which follow:

if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; without respect to persons, without favour and affection, without bribery and corruption; passing a righteous sentence, and making an equitable decision of the case between them, according to the law of God, and the rules of justice and equity: this respects judges and civil magistrates.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A summary of the conditions indispensable on man’s part, before he can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor.

Jeremiah 7:6

In this place - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent blood shed there judicially. Of one such judicial murder Jehoiakim had already been guilty Jeremiah 26:23.

Jeremiah 7:7

Why then do not the Jews still possess a land thus eternally given them? Because God never bestows anything unconditionally. The land was bestowed upon them by virtue of a covenant Genesis 17:7; the Jews had broken the conditions of this covenant Jeremiah 7:5-6, and the gift reverted to the original donor.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 7:5. If ye throughly amend your ways — Literally, If in making good ye fully make good your ways. God will no longer admit of half-hearted work. Semblances of piety cannot deceive him; he will not accept partial reformation; there must be a thorough amendment.


 
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