Jeremiah 7:5

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;

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.

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

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;

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

¹ The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, ² Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord. ³ The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place. ⁴ Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these. ⁵ 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; ⁶ If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves: ⁷ Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever. ⁸ See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit. ⁹ Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you; ¹⁰ And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?

Bible Verse Review
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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
And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.

Exodus 39:32
So all the work on the House of the Tent of meeting was done; as the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did it.

Exodus 40:16
And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he did.

Psalms 119:6
Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.

Matthew 3:15
But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.

Luke 8:21
But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of 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 these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

Philippians 2:8
And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.

Hebrews 5:8
And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

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.