Jeremiah 38:20

Modern English Version

But Jeremiah said, “They will not deliver you. Please obey the voice of the Lord which I speak to you, so it will be well with you and your soul will live.

Cross References

Genesis 12:13

Say you are my sister so that I may be treated well for your sake. Then my life will be spared because of you.”

Genesis 19:20

Behold, this city is close enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Please, let me escape there (is it not a little one?), and my life will be saved.”

2 Chronicles 20:20

So they rose up early in the morning and went out to the Wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and those dwelling in Jerusalem. Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be supported. Believe His prophets, and you will succeed.”

Proverbs 4:4

he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart retain my words; keep my commandments, and live.

Proverbs 7:2

Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to Me. Listen, so that your soul may live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Jeremiah 11:4

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey My voice, and do according to all which I command you. So you shall be My people, and I will be your God,

Jeremiah 11:8

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the imagination of their evil heart. Therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but which they did not do.

Jeremiah 26:13

Therefore now amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the Lord your God; and the Lord will repent of the disaster that He has pronounced against you.

Jeremiah 38:21

But if you refuse to surrender, this is the word that the Lord has shown me:

Jeremiah 7:23

But this thing I commanded them, saying, “Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.”

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a lengthening of your prosperity.”

Amos 5:4

Indeed, thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek Me and live!

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, or He will break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Acts 26:29

Paul said, “I pray to God that not only you, whether in a short or long time, but all who hear me this day, might become what I am, except for these chains.”

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men. But we are revealed to God, and I trust we are also revealed in your consciences.

2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us. We implore you in Christ’s stead: Be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As workers together with God, we ask you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

James 1:22

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.