Gen 4:7, Job 42:8-9, Psa 34:15, 102:17, 145:19, Jer 14:10, Mat 12:20 | ESV | STEP | If you do well , will you not be accepted ? And if you do not do well , sin is crouching at the door . Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.

Genesis 4:7

7 ^aIf you do well, will you not be accepted? ^{▼▼Hebrew will there not be a lifting up [of your face]?} And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. ^cIts desire is contrary to ^{▼▼Or is toward} you, but you must rule over it.”

Job 42:8-9

8 Now therefore take ^eseven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and ^foffer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall ^gpray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.” 9 ^hSo Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.

Psalms 34:15

15 ⁱThe eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
^jand his ears toward their cry.

Psalms 102:17

17 he ^kregards the prayer of the destitute
and does not despise their prayer.

Psalms 145:19

19 He ^lfulfills the desire of those who fear him;
he also ^mhears their cry and saves them.

Jeremiah 14:10

10 Thus says the Lord concerning this people:
“They have loved to wander thus;
they have not restrained their feet;
ⁿtherefore the Lord does not accept them;
^onow he will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins.”

Matthew 12:20

20 a bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick he will not quench,
until he brings justice to victory;