28. Surah Al-Qasas, Verse 84
مَنْ جَٓاءَ بِالْحَسَنَةِ فَلَهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْهَاۚ وَمَنْ جَٓاءَ بِالسَّيِّئَةِ فَلَا يُجْزَى الَّذ۪ينَ عَمِلُوا السَّيِّـَٔاتِ اِلَّا مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
Man jaa bilhasanatifalahu khayrun minha waman jaa bissayyi-atifala yujza allatheena AAamiloo assayyi-atiilla ma kanoo yaAAmaloon
Anyone who does a good action will get something better. As for anyone who does a bad action, those who have done bad actions will only be repaid for what they did.
- Progressive Muslims
Whoever brings forth a good deed, he will receive a better reward than it. And whoever brings forth a sin then the retribution for their sins will be to the extent of their deeds.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Anyone who brings actions that benefited others, the reward to him is better than what he has done. And anyone who is unfair in his dealings with others, such will be punished, but not more than the like of what they have done.
- Sam Gerrans
Whoso brings a good deed: he will have better than it; and whoso brings evil: those who did evil deeds will not be rewarded save for what they did.
- The Monotheist Group
Whoever brings forth a good deed, he will receive a better reward than it. And whoever brings forth a sin then the retribution for their sins will be to the extent of their deeds.
- Edip-Layth
Whoever brings forth a good deed, he will receive a better reward. Whoever brings forth a sin then the retribution for their sins will be to the extent of their deeds.
- Aisha Bewley
Anyone who does a good action will get something better. As for anyone who does a bad action, those who have done bad actions will only be repaid for what they did.
- Rashad Khalifa
Whoever works righteousness receives a far better reward. As for those who commit sins, the retribution for their sins is precisely equivalent to their works.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Whoever does good will receive better than what he has done; and whoever does ill shall be requited but to the extent of what he does.
- Sahih International
Whoever comes [on the Day of Judgement] with a good deed will have better than it; and whoever comes with an evil deed - then those who did evil deeds will not be recompensed except [as much as] what they used to do.
- Muhammad Asad
Whosoever shall come [before God] with a good deed will gain [further] good there from; but as for any who shall come with an evil deed - [know that] they who do evil deeds will not be requited with more than [the like of] what they have done.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Whoso bringeth a good deed, he will have better than the same; while as for him who bringeth an ill-deed, those who do ill-deeds will be requited only what they did.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
He who crowns the deed with equity shall be rewarded with what is infinitely better than what is commensurate with his deed and those who commit themselves to an evil line of conduct, shall be requited only with what is commensurate with their deeds.
- Bijan Moeinian
The one who does a good deed will receive many folded rewards for it. The one who does a wrong thing, he will receive a punishment equal to his sin [and not an excessive punishment.]
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Whosoever brings good (Islâmic Monotheism along with righteous deeds), he shall have the better thereof; and whosoever brings evil (polytheism along with evil deeds), then those who do evil deeds will only be requited for what they used to do.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
If any does good, the reward to him is better than his deed; but if any does evil, the doers of evil are only punished (to the extent) of their deeds.
- Mustafa Khattab
Whoever comes with a good deed will be rewarded with what is better. And whoever comes with an evil deed, then the evildoers will only be rewarded for what they used to do.
- Taqi Usmani
Whoever brings good deed shall have better than it, and whoever brings evil deed, then those who commit evils shall not be punished except for what they used to do.
- Abdul Haleem
Whoever comes before God with a good deed will receive a better reward; whoever comes with an evil deed will be punished only for what he has done.
- Arthur John Arberry
Whoso brings a good deed shall have better than it; and whoso brings an evil deed those who have done evil deeds shall only be recompensed for that they were doing.
- E. Henry Palmer
He who brings a good deed shall have better than it; and he who brings an evil deed - those who do evil deeds shall only be rewarded for that which they have done.
- Hamid S. Aziz
That Home of the Hereafter, We assign it unto those who seek not arrogant oppression in the earth, nor yet corruption, and the end is for the righteous.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Whoever comes with a fair (deed), then he will have a more charitable (reward) than it; and whoever comes with an odious (deed), then the ones who have done odious (deeds) will be recompensed only with (nothing) except with whatever they were doing.
- George Sale
Whoso doth good, shall receive a reward which shall exceed the merit thereof: But as to him who doth evil, they who work evil shall be rewarded according to the merit only of that which they shall have wrought.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
If any does good, the reward for him is better than his deed; But if any does evil, the doers of evil are only punished to the extent of their deeds.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
He who brings good deeds (into the presence of his Lord on the Day of judgment) shall have a reward (at His hand) better than he merits. But he who brings evil (let him bear in mind that) those who do evil shall only reap the fruit according to what they did.
- Ali Quli Qarai
Whoever brings virtue shall receive [a reward] better than it, but whoever brings vice —those who commit misdeeds shall not be requited except for what they used to do.