Jeremiah 7:5
3 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
4 Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
6 if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
- KJV
- For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
- WEB
- For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
- ASV
- For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
- DARBY
- But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice between a man and his neighbour,
- BLB
- For if you⁺ thoroughly amend your⁺ ways and your⁺ deeds; if you⁺ thoroughly do justice between a man and between his neighbor;
- ÅB
- Men dersom dere bedrer deres veier og deres gjerninger, dersom dere skifter rett mellom mann og mann,
- OTB
- For hvis dere virkelig forbedrer deres veier og deres gjerninger, og utøver rettferdighet mellom en person og hans nabo,
- B1930
- Men dersom I bedrer eders veier og eders gjerninger, dersom I skifter rett mellem mann og mann,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 7:3
Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:19
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.
Read in context1 Kings 6:12–13
“As for this temple you are building, if you walk in My statutes, carry out My ordinances, and keep all My commandments by walking in them, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:1–2
“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,
Read in contextIsaiah 16:3
“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:17
He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
Read in contextJeremiah 22:3
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:8
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
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