Jeremiah 7:5

THE MESSAGE

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 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 Message from God to Jeremiah: "Stand in the gate of God 's Temple and preach this Message. "Say, ‘Listen, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship God. God -of-the-Angel-Armies, Israel's God, has this to say to you: ³"‘Clean up your act—the way you live, the things you do—so I can make my home with you in this place. Don't for a minute believe the lies being spoken here—"This is God 's Temple, God 's Temple, God 's Temple!" Total nonsense! Only if you clean up your act (the way you live, the things you do), only if you do a total spring cleaning on the way you live and treat your neighbors, only if you quit exploiting the street people and orphans and widows, no longer taking advantage of innocent people on this very site and no longer destroying your souls by using this Temple as a front for other gods—only then will I move into your neighborhood. Only then will this country I gave your ancestors be my permanent home, my Temple. ⁸"‘Get smart! Your leaders are handing you a pack of lies, and you're swallowing them! Use your heads! Do you think you can rob and murder, have sex with the neighborhood wives, tell lies nonstop, worship the local gods, and buy every novel religious commodity on the market—and then march into this Temple, set apart for my worship, and say, "We're safe!" thinking that the place itself gives you a license to go on with all this outrageous sacrilege? A cave full of criminals! Do you think you can turn this Temple, set apart for my worship, into something like that? Well, think again. I've got eyes in my head. I can see what's going on.'" God 's Decree! ¹² "‘Take a trip down to the place that was once in Shiloh, where I met my people in the early days. Take a look at those ruins, what I did to it because of the evil ways of my people Israel. ¹³"‘So now, because of the way you have lived and failed to listen, even though time and again I took you aside and talked seriously with you, and because you refused to change when I called you to repent, I'm going to do to this Temple, set aside for my worship, this place you think is going to keep you safe no matter what, this place I gave as a gift to your ancestors and you, the same as I did to Shiloh. And as for you, I'm going to get rid of you, the same as I got rid of those old relatives of yours around Shiloh, your fellow Israelites in that former kingdom to the north.'

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
Noah did everything God commanded him to do.

Exodus 39:32
That completed the work of The Dwelling, the Tent of Meeting. The People of Israel did what God had commanded Moses. They did it all.

Exodus 40:16
Moses did everything God commanded. He did it all.

Matthew 3:15
But Jesus insisted. "Do it. God's work, putting things right all these centuries, is coming together right now in this baptism." So John did it.

Luke 8:21
He replied, "My mother and brothers are the ones who hear and do God's Word. Obedience is thicker than blood."

John 2:5
She went ahead anyway, telling the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do it."

John 13:17
Washing His Disciples' Feet Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that the time had come to leave this world to go to the Father. Having loved his dear companions, he continued to love them right to the end. It was suppertime. The Devil by now had Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, firmly in his grip, all set for the betrayal. Jesus knew that the Father had put him in complete charge of everything, that he came from God and was on his way back to God. So he got up from the supper table, set aside his robe, and put on an apron. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, drying them with his apron. When he got to Simon Peter, Peter said, "Master, you wash my feet?" Jesus answered, "You don't understand now what I'm doing, but it will be clear enough to you later." Peter persisted, "You're not going to wash my feet—ever!" Jesus said, "If I don't wash you, you can't be part of what I'm doing." "Master!" said Peter. "Not only my feet, then. Wash my hands! Wash my head!" Jesus said, "If you've had a bath in the morning, you only need your feet washed now and you're clean from head to toe. My concern, you understand, is holiness, not hygiene. So now you're clean. But not every one of you." (He knew who was betraying him. That's why he said, "Not every one of you.") After he had finished washing their feet, he took his robe, put it back on, and went back to his place at the table. Then he said, "Do you understand what I have done to you? You address me as ‘Teacher' and ‘Master,' and rightly so. That is what I am. So if I, the Master and Teacher, washed your feet, you must now wash each other's feet. I've laid down a pattern for you. What I've done, you do. I'm only pointing out the obvious. A servant is not ranked above his master; an employee doesn't give orders to the employer. If you understand what I'm telling you, act like it—and live a blessed life.

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.