For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 24 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.
'I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not pluck them up' is the positive restoration form of Jeremiah's formula that Paul echoes in 'building up, and not casting down.' Recurrence of this exact build/not-tear-down pairing (also 31:28; 42:10) strengthens the allusion's likelihood.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God promises to 'build them and not pull down, plant them and not pluck up,' the same build/plant pairing applied to the restored people. It reinforces the Jeremianic source-pool behind Paul's 'building/farming' fusion in 3:9 but is a secondary witness to the idiom rather than a distinct allusion. Marked low and contested.
Low confidence