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Jeremiah 1:7-8

The New Testament’s use of Jeremiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak. Don’t be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you,” says Yahweh.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Acts 26:16-18

'Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you' closely tracks Jeremiah's call: 'to all that I shall send you, you shall go... be not afraid of their faces: for I am with you to deliver you.' Both the sending and the promise of rescue are drawn from the prophet's commission.

High confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Titus 2:15 ?

'Exhort and reprove with all authority; let no man despise you' (v.15) faintly recalls the prophetic commissioning, where the young prophet is told not to fear, for God will be with him. A contested echo of prophetic emboldening, since the charge fits general pastoral exhortation.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Jeremiah 1
Jeremiah 1:5 9Jeremiah 1:7-9 2Jeremiah 1:8 3Jeremiah 1:10 7Jeremiah 1:19 2