If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can’t.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 20 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.
'Necessity is laid on me; woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!' (v.16) closely echoes Jeremiah's compulsion: 'If I say I will not mention him... there is in my heart as it were a burning fire... and I cannot.' Both depict an inescapable divine constraint to proclaim despite the cost. Strong coherence with Paul's stewardship-not-of-his-own-will (v.17); high volume by the prophet-compelled-to-speak motif.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem' (v.22) and the Spirit's testimony that 'bonds and afflictions wait for me' (v.23) resonate with the prophetic compulsion to a costly word one cannot withhold; thematic coherence with Jeremiah's constrained, suffering vocation, no verbal borrowing.
Low confidence