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Jeremiah 31:33-34

The New Testament’s use of Jeremiah

4 places · 3 kinds of echo · indexing Jeremiah 31:33-34, Jeremiah 31:33–34

The source

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin […]

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Rom 11:25-32

'This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins' (v.27) also draws the new-covenant formula from Jer 31:33-34 ('this is the covenant I will make... I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more'). The 'covenant + forgiveness of sins' pairing is distinctively Jeremianic; Paul fuses it into the Isaianic Deliverer oracle.

High confidence

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

1 Thess 4:9-12

The new-covenant promise of the law written on hearts so that 'they shall all know me' undergirds 'taught by God to love one another.' Internal, Spirit-given instruction replacing external teaching is the Jeremianic hope Paul presupposes.

High confidence
John 6:41-51

'They shall all know me, from the least to the greatest' (new-covenant interiority of divine teaching) reinforces the 'taught by God' citation and the drawing/learning that brings one to Jesus (vv.44-45). Strong Coherence as a secondary new-covenant source.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Heb 10:11–18

Jeremiah's new covenant, quoted in full at 8:8–12, returns here in brief to close the case: if sins are remembered ‘no more,’ then ‘there is no more offering for sin.’ The recurrence brackets the whole central section (Hays).

High confidence
Elsewhere in Jeremiah 31
Jeremiah 31:3 2Jeremiah 31:31 5Jeremiah 31:31-34 3Jeremiah 31:33 11Jeremiah 31:34 4