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Jeremiah 31:3

The New Testament’s use of Jeremiah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

1 John 4:7-12

'I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you' parallels John's account of love revealed and originating in God. The everlasting, drawing love of the LORD in Jeremiah anticipates the divine love manifested in the sending of the Son.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

John 13:1-3 ?

'Having loved his own... he loved them to the end' resonates with the LORD's everlasting love and faithful hesed toward his own people. The covenant-love register fits, but the wording is too common to claim a deliberate citation.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Jeremiah 31
Jeremiah 31:31 5Jeremiah 31:31-34 3Jeremiah 31:33 11Jeremiah 31:33-34 4Jeremiah 31:34 4