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Jeremiah 29:13

The New Testament’s use of Jeremiah

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

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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.

Luke 11:9-13

"You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart" is the classic seek-and-find promise undergirding 11:9-10. Its recurrence with Proverbs 8:17 strengthens the case.

Medium confidence
Matt 7:7-11

'You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart' — the seek/find promise behind 'Seek, and you will find.'

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Acts 17:22-31 ?

'You will seek me and find me, when you seek with all your heart' parallels v.27; recurrent seek-and-find formula.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Jeremiah 29
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