Jeremiah 38:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Jeremiah said, “That will not happen. Just obey the voice of the Lord in what I say to you, and it shall go well with you, and your life shall be spared.

Cross References

Genesis 12:13

Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you and that my life may be spared on your account.”

Genesis 19:20

Look, that city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!”

2 Chronicles 20:20

They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa, and as they went out Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God and you will be established; believe his prophets and you will succeed.”

Proverbs 4:4

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

Proverbs 7:2

keep my commandments and live; keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Jeremiah 11:4

which I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron smelter, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you 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 stubbornness of an evil will. So I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.

Jeremiah 26:13

Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will change his mind about the disaster that he has pronounced against you.

Jeremiah 38:21

But if you are determined not to surrender, this is what the Lord has shown me:

Jeremiah 7:23

But this command I gave them, “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you.”

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, may my counsel be acceptable to you: atone for your sins with righteousness and your iniquities with mercy to the oppressed, so that your prosperity may be prolonged.”

Amos 5:4

For 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 against the house of Joseph like fire, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Acts 26:29

Paul replied, “Whether quickly or not, I pray to God that not only you but also all who are listening to me today might become such as I am—except for these chains.”

2 Corinthians 5:11

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we ourselves are well known to God, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences.

2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 6:1

As we work together with him, we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.

James 1:22

But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.