The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
⛓ 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.
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A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Jeremiah's 'the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt' is the prophetic locus classicus for the heart as the seat of hidden defilement, matching Jesus' catalogue of deceit, covetousness, and wickedness emerging from within. High thematic coherence with the heart/exterior antithesis driving the pericope.
Medium confidence'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick' — prophetic anthropology directly behind 'out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders...' (Mt 15:19).
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