Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
⛓ Read Jeremiah 4 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The command to circumcise yourselves to the LORD and remove the foreskin of the heart provides the prophetic call to true (inward) circumcision over against fleshly circumcision, exactly the antithesis Paul presses. Strong coherence with v.11's contrast between hand-made and Christ's circumcision.
High confidence'Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, remove the foreskin of your hearts' is the prophetic locus for heart-circumcision that Paul presupposes when he denies 'confidence in the flesh.' The contrast between fleshly and heart circumcision is exactly Paul's antithesis here.
High confidence2:29 'circumcision of the heart' echoes Jer 4:4, 'circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts' — prophetic demand for inward circumcision lest wrath go forth, fitting Paul's wrath-and-heart argument.
High confidenceJeremiah's command to 'circumcise yourselves to the Lord, remove the foreskin of your hearts' is part of the prophetic tradition that makes literal circumcision insufficient apart from obedience—the background to Paul's 'circumcision is nothing.' Coherence and availability are high; the link is thematic rather than verbal, hence allusion at medium confidence.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Prophetic 'hardness of heart' / circumcise-your-heart language underlies Jesus' diagnosis of why the Mosaic concession was given.
Low confidence