Jeremiah 7:5

5 If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,

Jeremiah 7:5 in Other Translations

KJV
5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
ESV
5 "For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another,
NLT
5 But I will be merciful only if you stop your evil thoughts and deeds and start treating each other with justice;
MSG
5 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,
CSB
5 Instead, if you really change your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another,

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 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.
4 Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD!”
5 If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,
6 if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm,
7 then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.

Cross References 2

  • 1. ver 3; Jeremiah 18:11; Jeremiah 26:13; Jeremiah 35:15
  • 2. S Exodus 22:22; S Leviticus 25:17; S Isaiah 1:17; Jeremiah 22:3
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