Jeremiah 7:5

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.

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;

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 Lord sent me to the gate of the Temple where the people of Judah went in to worship. He told me to stand there and announce what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, had to say to them: "Change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and I will let you go on living here. ⁴ Stop believing those deceitful words, ‘We are safe! This is the Lord 's Temple, this is the Lord 's Temple, this is the Lord 's Temple!' ⁵ "Change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing. Be fair in your treatment of one another. ⁶ Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshiping other gods, for that will destroy you. ⁷ If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession. ⁸ "Look, you put your trust in deceitful words. ⁹ You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before. ¹⁰ You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, ‘We are safe!' ¹¹ Do you think that my Temple is a hiding place for robbers? I have seen what you are doing. ¹² Go to Shiloh, the first place where I chose to be worshiped, and see what I did to it because of the sins of my people Israel.

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
Noah did everything that God commanded.

Exodus 39:32
All the work on the Tent of the Lord 's presence was finally completed. The Israelites made everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:16
Moses did everything just as the Lord had commanded.

Psalms 119:6
If I pay attention to all your commands, then I will not be put to shame.

Matthew 3:15
But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so for now. For in this way we shall do all that God requires." So John agreed.

Luke 8:21
Jesus said to them all, "My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and obey it."

John 2:5
Jesus' mother then told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

John 13:17
Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice!

Philippians 2:8
He was humble and walked the path of obedience all the way to death— his death on the cross.

Hebrews 5:8
But even though he was God's Son, he learned through his sufferings to be obedient.

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.