For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Parallel translations
- WEB For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
- BSB For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
- NKJV “For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor,
- NASB For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor,
- NLT But I will be merciful only if you stop your evil thoughts and deeds and start treating each other with justice;
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Quick answer
God says that only if they truly reform their ways and practice justice will they remain in the land. True repentance shows itself in changed behavior toward others.
Overview
The conditional 'if you thoroughly amend' stresses sincerity and depth, not token change. Justice between neighbors becomes a concrete test of genuine repentance. God ties the people's security to ethical faithfulness, showing that authentic faith always bears fruit in righteous living.
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- Jer 4:1–2If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
- Isa 1:19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
- 1 Kgs 6:12–13Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
- Jer 7:3Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
- Jer 22:3Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
- Ezek 18:8He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
- Ezek 18:17That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
- Isa 16:3Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
- Judg 21:12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
- Judg 5:1Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
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