Jeremiah 7:5

5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor,

Jeremiah 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 7:5

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.

Jeremiah 7:5 In-Context

3 Thus 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.

4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, "The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are these."

5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor,

6 if ye 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,

7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.