Jeremiah 38:20 Cross References - NSB

²⁰ I said: »You will not be handed over to them. I beg you to obey Jehovah’s message. Then all will go well with you, and your life will be spared.

²⁰ »Early the next morning the people went out to the wild country near Tekoa. Before they began Jehoshaphat addressed them with these words: ‘People of Judah and Jerusalem! Put your trust in Jehovah your God. You will stand your ground. Believe what his prophets tell you, and you will succeed.

³ Give ear and come to me; listen to me, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.

⁴ »It is the covenant I made with their ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt. Egypt was like an iron smelter (furnace) to them. I told them to obey me and to do everything that I commanded. I told them that if they obeyed, they would be my people and I would be their God.

¹³ »You must change the way you are living and the things you are doing. You must obey Jehovah your God. If you do, he will change his mind about the destruction that he said he would bring on you.

²⁷ »Let my counsel be acceptable to you O King. Stop your sins by being righteous and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. May there be a lengthening of your prosperity.«

²⁹ Paul replied, »I pray to God, that you and also all that hear me this day were altogether such as I am, except for these bonds.«

¹¹ We know what it means to respect the Lord so we persuade others. God knows us and I hope that you know us in your hearts (consciences).

²⁰ We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ that you be reconciled to God.

¹ Working together with him we plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain (to no purpose) (in emptiness).

⁸ I have all boldness in Christ to tell you what is appropriate. ⁹ Because of love I appeal to you, since I am Paul, the aged. I am also a prisoner of Christ Jesus. ¹⁰ I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment.

²² Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves.