Jeremiah 7:5
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New International Version (©2011)
If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,

New Living Translation (©2007)
But I will be merciful only if you stop your evil thoughts and deeds and start treating each other with justice;

English Standard Version (©2001)
“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another,

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,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Instead, if you really change your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another,

International Standard Version (©2012)
but rather, truly change your ways and your deeds. If you truly practice justice between each person and his neighbor,

NET Bible (©2006)
You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
" 'Suppose you really change the way you live and act and you really treat each other fairly.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

American King James Version
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

American Standard Version
For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgement between a man and his neighbor,

Darby Bible Translation
But if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye really do justice 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;

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;

World English Bible
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

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,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-16 No observances, professions, or supposed revelations, will profit, if men do not amend their ways and their doings. None can claim an interest in free salvation, who allow themselves in the practice of known sin, or live in the neglect of known duty. They thought that the temple they profaned would be their protection. But all who continue in sin because grace has abounded, or that grace may abound, make Christ the minister of sin; and the cross of Christ, rightly understood, forms the most effectual remedy to such poisonous sentiments. The Son of God gave himself for our transgressions, to show the excellence of the Divine law, and the evil of sin. Never let us think we may do wickedness without suffering for it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - If ye thoroughly amend, etc.; a development of the ides of ver. 3. The true palladium of Judah would be the faithful performance of Jehovah's moral laws, especially those referring to the conduct of the rulers. Observe the stress which all the prophets lay on the virtues of civil life.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. For—"But" [Maurer].

judgment—justice (Jer 22:3).

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Jeremiah's Message at the Temple Gate
…4Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these. 5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor; 6If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: …

Leviticus 25:17 Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God.
1 Kings 6:12 "As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.
Isaiah 1:19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;
Jeremiah 4:1 "If you, Israel, will return, then return to me," declares the LORD. "If you put your detestable idols out of my sight and no longer go astray,
Jeremiah 4:2 and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, 'As surely as the LORD lives,' then the nations will invoke blessings by him and in him they will boast."
Jeremiah 7:3 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place.
Jeremiah 21:12 This is what the LORD says to you, house of David: "'Administer justice every morning; rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed, or my wrath will break out and burn like fire because of the evil you have done-- burn with no one to quench it.
Jeremiah 22:3 This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Jeremiah 22:15 "Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He did what was right and just, so all went well with him.
Jeremiah 26:13 Now reform your ways and your actions and obey the LORD your God. Then the LORD will relent and not bring the disaster he has pronounced against you.
Zechariah 7:7 Are these not the words the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?'"