For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 17 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Rooted and grounded in love' draws on the OT image of the person planted by water who is 'rooted' and bears fruit (Jeremiah 17:8; cf. Psalm 1:3). The agricultural 'rooted' metaphor for the secure, flourishing believer is the same, giving good coherence; the architectural 'grounded' pairs a building image, but the rootedness half is a clear OT echo.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The one trusting the LORD is a tree by water that 'does not cease to bear fruit' — fruitfulness as the mark of right relation to God.
Medium confidenceThe man planted by water whose roots reach the stream parallels Paul's horticultural metaphor 'rooted... abounding,' reinforcing the OT trope of the rooted and fruitful righteous. Faint and contested.
Low confidence