Jeremiah 7:5

New Living Translation

But I will be merciful only if you stop your evil thoughts and deeds and start treating each other with justice;

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;

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 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 Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, ² "Go to the entrance of the Lord 's Temple, and give this message to the people: ‘O Judah, listen to this message from the Lord ! Listen to it, all of you who worship here! ³ This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: "‘Even now, if you quit your evil ways, I will let you stay in your own land. ⁴ But don't be fooled by those who promise you safety simply because the Lord 's Temple is here. They chant, "The Lord 's Temple is here! The Lord 's Temple is here!" ⁵ But I will be merciful only if you stop your evil thoughts and deeds and start treating each other with justice; ⁶ only if you stop exploiting foreigners, orphans, and widows; only if you stop your murdering; and only if you stop harming yourselves by worshiping idols. ⁷ Then I will let you stay in this land that I gave to your ancestors to keep forever. ⁸ "‘Don't be fooled into thinking that you will never suffer because the Temple is here. It's a lie! ⁹ Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and burn incense to Baal and all those other new gods of yours, ¹⁰ and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, "We are safe!"—only to go right back to all those evils again?

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
So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.

Exodus 39:32
And so at last the Tabernacle was finished. The Israelites had done everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:16
Moses proceeded to do everything just as the Lord had commanded him.

Psalms 119:6
Then I will not be ashamed when I compare my life with your commands.

Matthew 3:15
But Jesus said, "It should be done, for we must carry out all that God requires." So John agreed to baptize him.

Luke 8:21
Jesus replied, "My mother and my brothers are all those who hear God's word and obey it."

John 2:5
But his mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

John 13:17
Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.

Philippians 2:8
he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross.

Hebrews 5:8
Even though Jesus was God's Son, he learned obedience from the things 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.