But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 10 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Jeremiah's contrast that 'the LORD is the true God... the living God' against the worthless idols he has just mocked directly informs John's 'This is the true God' followed by 'keep yourselves from idols.' The polemical pairing of the one true God with the renunciation of idols is shared. John echoes Jeremiah's living-and-true-God formula and its anti-idol thrust.
High confidence'A living and true God' set against 'idols' renders Jeremiah's contrast: 'YHWH is the true God; he is the living God' over against the worthless idols of the nations. Jeremiah 10 is the locus classicus of the idol-polemic Paul compresses; Volume, Coherence, and the living/true pairing make this a strong allusion.
High confidence