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Genesis 4:7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
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This chapter in the commentary 1 Nephi 16 — The Liahona, the Broken Bow, and the Faith Mechanism of the Wilderness 2 Nephi 5 — The Split, the Land of Nephi, and 'After the Manner of Happiness' 2 Nephi 18 — Isaiah 8 — Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, the Sanctuary and the Stone of Stumbling, To the Law and to the Testimony 2 Nephi 26 — Nephi's Vision Continued — The Nephite Destruction, the Whisper out of the Dust, and the Universal Invitation 3 Nephi 9 — Will Ye Not Now Return Unto Me — The Voice of Christ in the Darkness 4 Nephi 1 — And Surely There Could Not Be a Happier People — The Two Hundred Years of Zion, and the Long Unraveling Alma 3 — The Mark and the Curse — the Amlicites Self-Marked, the Word of God Fulfilled, and Every Man Receiveth Wages of Him Whom He Listeth to Obey Alma 7 — The Condescension at Gideon — He Shall Take Upon Him Their Infirmities, That His Bowels May Be Filled with Mercy, That He May Know According to the Flesh How to Succor His People Alma 14 — The Lord Receiveth Them Up Unto Himself — The Martyrdom of the Innocents, the Mocking Priests, and the Collapse of the Prison Walls Alma 18 — Is It a Man? — Lamoni's Great-Spirit Question, Ammon's Pedagogical Bridge from Creation to Christ, and the King Overcome unto Falling-as-Dead Alma 20 — Go Not Up to the Land of Nephi — The Lord's Course Correction, the King over All the Land, and Ammon's Disarming Defense of His Friend Alma 21 — Aaron in the City of Jerusalem — The Amalekites and Amulonites, the Synagogue Disputation, and the Prison of Middoni Alma 24 — Rather Than Shed the Blood of Our Brethren — Weapons Buried Deep, 1,005 Slain Singing Praise, and the Convert Count That Exceeded the Body Count Alma 51 — The King-Men and the Javelin — Liberty Assailed from Within and the Death of the Usurper Alma 60 — Righteous, and Wrong — Moroni's Epistle of Condemnation Enos 1 — Enos's Wrestle — The Hunt That Became a Prayer, Intercession for Brethren and Enemies, the Promise of Preservation Ether 8 — Built Up to Get Power and Gain — The Secret Combination of Akish, and Moroni's Warning to Our Nation Ether 14 — He Sweepeth the Earth Before Him — The Cursed Land, and a War Without Restraint Ether 15 — Save It Were Coriantumr and Shiz — The End of a Nation, and the Last Words of Ether Helaman 6 — The Great Reversal — When the Lamanites Surpassed the Nephites Jacob 2 — Tender Feelings Wounded — Jacob's Temple Sermon on Pride, Riches, and the David-Solomon Sin Jacob 3 — The Pure in Heart, the Lamanite Husbands, and the Mercy Available Yet Jacob 7 — Sherem the Anti-Christ — Jacob's Final Confrontation, the Sign Demanded, and the Wandering People Jarom 1 — Jarom — A Short Book on Purpose: Keeping the Law of Moses While Looking Forward to Christ, and the Prophets Who Kept a Hard People Alive Mormon 3 — Vengeance Is Mine — The Nephites' Boast, Mormon's Refusal, and the Idle Witness Who Writes to Us Mormon 7 — Know Ye — Mormon's Last Words to the Remnant of His People Mosiah 17 — Abinadi Sealed by Fire — Alma Believes, the Word Is Hidden Away, the Prophet Dies as the Type He Named Himself to Be Doctrine and Covenants 98 — Renounce War and Proclaim Peace 1 Kings 19 — The Sound of Thin Silence — The Prophet Who Asked to Die, the Angel's Bread, the Whisper at Horeb, and the Seven Thousand He Could Not See 1 Kings 20 — The God of the Valleys Too — Thirty-two Kings at the Gate, the Boast Proverb, Victory at Aphek, and the Man Ahab Let Walk 2 Kings 21 — The Wiped Dish and the Untold Prayer — Manasseh Unbuilds His Father's Reformation, Fills Jerusalem with Innocent Blood, Hears the Sentence That Dooms the Kingdom, and Finds a Mercy the Book of Kings Never Mentions 2 Kings 24 — According to the Word of the LORD — Nebuchadnezzar Comes Up, Jehoiachin Opens the Gates, Ten Thousand Go to Babylon, and a King Named Righteousness Takes a Tilting Throne Genesis 3 — The Choice That Opened the World — the Serpent's Question, the Fruit and the Opened Eyes, the Promise of the Seed, and the Coats of Skins Genesis 5 — The Book of the Generations of Adam — the Likeness Handed Down, the Drumbeat of the Dying, the One Who Walked and Was Not, and the Son Named for Comfort Job 39 — The LORD's Bestiary — The Wild Goats, the Untamed Ass, the Unicorn Who Will Not Serve, the Foolish Ostrich, the War-Horse Clothed in Thunder, and the Eagle on the Crag Nehemiah 5 — The Enemy Inside the Wall — A Great Cry, the Usury of Brethren, the Governor Who Would Not Eat His Bread Psalms 19 — Two Books of One Author — The Heavens That Preach Without Words and the Law That Revives the Soul Moses 5 — The Similitude of the Sacrifice — Adam's Altar, Eve's Joy, and the First Master Mahan Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read Genesis 4:7 in context .