Jeremiah 42:6

New English Translation

We will obey what the Lord our God to whom we are sending you tells us to do. It does not matter whether we like what he tells us or not. We will obey what he tells us to do so that things will go well for us.”

Cross References

Psalm 128:2

You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

Psalm 78:36

But they deceived him with their words, and lied to him.

Exodus 24:7

He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said, “We are willing to do and obey all that the Lord has spoken.”

Isaiah 3:10

Tell the innocent it will go well with them, for they will be rewarded for what they have done.

Jeremiah 22:15

Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him.

Jeremiah 43:4

So Johanan son of Kareah, all the army officers, and all the rest of the people did not obey the Lord’s command to stay in the land.

Jeremiah 7:23

I also explicitly commanded them: “Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you.”

Romans 7:13

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

Romans 7:7

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

Romans 8:7

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

Deuteronomy 5:27

You go near so that you can hear everything the Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”

Deuteronomy 5:29

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 5:33

Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.

Joshua 24:24

The people said to Joshua, “We will worship the Lord our God and obey him.”