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Bible Memory verse
…this is stronger than the poster version. It was spoken to people facing seventy years of exile. Jeremiah 29:10 Romans 8:28 Psalms 138:8 Lord, you had plans for your people even in exile. I trust you with the years I cannot see.
Bible Memory verse
The Lord tells a wayward people that he has loved them with an everlasting love and has drawn them with loving kindness. It shows God's love reaching backward into eternity and forward into your restoration, spoken to people who had failed him. Hosea 11:4 Ephesians 1:4-5 Isaiah 54:10 Everlasting…
Bible Memory verse
…has done. It names the difference the gospel makes: not a lower standard, but a changed heart. Jeremiah 31:31-32 Hebrews 8:10 Ezekiel 36:26-27 Lord, write your law on my heart, and not only in my memory.
Bible Memory collection
…of his kingdom forever. David had wanted to build God a house; God promises to build David one. Jeremiah 31:33 God promises a new covenant in which he will put his law in his people's inward parts and write it in their hearts, and he will be their God and they his people. Hebrews quotes this at…
Bible Memory collection
…not by what we felt. Lamentations 3:22-23 In the middle of a book of grief over a ruined city, Jeremiah says the Lord's loving kindnesses do not cease, that his compassion does not fail, and that they are new every morning: great is his faithfulness. The setting matters. This is not written from…
Bible Memory collection
…an anchor for the soul, firm and secure, reaching into the inner sanctuary where Jesus has gone. Jeremiah 29:11 God tells exiles in Babylon that he knows the plans he has for them, plans for peace and a future and a hope. Psalms 42:11 The psalmist questions his own downcast soul and preaches to it:…
Bible Memory collection
…long enough to test it. Lamentations 3:22-23 In the middle of a book of grief over a ruined city, Jeremiah says the Lord's loving kindnesses do not cease, that his compassion does not fail, and that they are new every morning: great is his faithfulness. The setting matters. This is not written from…
Chapter study
…asking for something He elsewhere calls detestable? The tension is real Jeremiah 19:5 says of child sacrifice that God did not command it, neither came it into his mind. Leviticus 18:21 and Deuteronomy 12:31 forbid it…
Chapter study
…had long been pictured as God's vine, in Psalm 80, in Isaiah 5, in Jeremiah 2 and Ezekiel 15, almost always in the context of a vineyard that disappointed its owner. Jesus does not claim to be a better version of that…
Chapter study
…pressure, so the psalm's picture is not one poet's private preference. Jeremiah 17:5-8 Jeremiah sets the same two pictures side by side: the one who trusts in man is like a shrub in the desert, and the one who trusts in…
Chapter study
…shepherd language, taking him from a literal flock to a national one. Jeremiah 23:1-4 Woe to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep. The prophets treat bad leadership as a shepherding failure. Ezekiel 34:23…
Chapter study
…a person means to enter into relationship with them, as in Amos 3:2 and Jeremiah 1:5. The objects of the verb here are people, not their decisions. Faithful Christians differ here, and Romans 9 to 11 is Paul's own…
Dig Deeper
…keeps his inner thoughts to itself. Leviticus 18:21, Deuteronomy 12:31, Jeremiah 7:31 Scripture's own condemnation of sacrificing children, stated as something God never commanded and never conceived. There is one place…
Dig Deeper
…is called God's vine or vineyard in Psalm 80:8 to 16, Isaiah 5:1 to 7, Jeremiah 2:21 and Hosea 10:1, and in each case the complaint is the same: the vine was planted well and yielded wild or worthless grapes. Jesus is…
Dig Deeper
…carries the lambs in his arms. Tenderness and strength in one sentence. Jeremiah 23:1-4 Woe to the shepherds who scatter the flock, and the promise of a shepherd who will not. John 10:11 The Good Shepherd lays down His…
Reading plan
…This plan draws from two sets of writers: the prophets Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, Zechariah and Malachi, and then the gospel writers Matthew, Luke and John. Reading them side by side is the whole point. The same God who…
Verse study
…given every advantage that yielded wild grapes instead of good fruit. Jeremiah 2:21 asks how a vine planted as a noble seed could turn into a degenerate and foreign plant. Ezekiel 15 goes further still, arguing that the…
Devotional
…doesn’t fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Jeremiah writes these lines with the smoke of Jerusalem still in his clothes. The temple is gone. The walls are down. Nothing in his circumstances…
Devotional
…covenant's promises were false. It means the promises now include what Jeremiah announced: forgiveness remembered no more, and God's law written on the heart rather than only given as external command. Christ is named…
Devotional
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! WEB Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet, and this verse shows…
Devotional
Jeremiah 31:33 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 I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and…
Devotional
Jeremiah 31:33 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 I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they…
Devotional
…it was never simply about political continuity. Isaiah 9:6-7 and Jeremiah 23:5-6 keep reaching for this same promise centuries later, describing a coming righteous Branch from David's line whose government and peace…
Devotional
…Bethel as a royal shrine, the background to Amos's confrontation there. Jeremiah 1:6-9 Another prophet objecting that he is too young, answered by God's promise to put words in his mouth. What has kept you from speaking…
Devotional
…the Son to little children, immediately before the invitation to rest. Jeremiah 6:16 Ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and you will find rest for your souls, language Jesus echoes here. Hebrews 4:14-16 A…
Devotional
…with Old Testament roots, though usually in judgment contexts such as Jeremiah 16:16. Jesus repurposes the image toward rescue rather than judgment, turning their trade into a metaphor for gathering people into the…
Devotional
…at key turning points across Scripture, in Exodus 6:7 at the exodus, Jeremiah 31:33 in the promise of a new covenant, and Ezekiel 37:27 describing the future temple. John gathers this recurring promise and places it at…
Devotional
…Yahweh, who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases. Jeremiah 30:17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh. What has shaped your expectations of God as healer,…
Devotional
…knowledge described from the side of prayer rather than the sword. Jeremiah 17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things; the LORD searches the heart, explaining why an external, cutting word is necessary. James…
Devotional
…hand or the Father's hand, a parallel image of unbreakable security. Jeremiah 31:3 'I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my loving kindness to you,' the Old Testament root of love that…
Devotional
…same promise of the Spirit's life pictured as national resurrection. Jeremiah 31:31-33 The new covenant promise, God's law written on the heart rather than on tablets. 2 Corinthians 3:3 Paul describes believers as a…
Devotional
…Old Testament imagery of the cup of God's wrath, Isaiah 51:17 and Jeremiah 25:15, meaning His request is not primarily about fearing physical suffering but about the coming judgment He would bear for sin. His submission…
Devotional
…rest of the Old Testament narrates Israel's long struggle to keep it. Jeremiah 31:32 will later describe this very covenant as one Israel broke, even though Yahweh was a husband to them, setting up the need for…
Devotional
Jeremiah 31:33 "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 I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and…
Devotional
…my blood, which is poured out for you. WEB Jesus uses the exact phrase Jeremiah used, new covenant, at the meal the night before his death, and ties it directly to his blood poured out. He identifies himself as the one…
Devotional
…This whole week's line of promises, from Eden to Abraham to David to Jeremiah to Isaiah, is what Jesus claims to fulfill in this one sentence at Nazareth.
Devotional
…fear Yahweh, and turn away from evil, applying the trust concretely. Jeremiah 17:5-8 A curse on the one who trusts in man, and a blessing on the one who trusts in Yahweh, pictured as a tree by water. Philippians 4:6-7…
Devotional
…verse, tying trust to keeping commandments and showing mercy and truth. Jeremiah 17:5-8 Cursed is the one who trusts in man, blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, a contrast that frames trust as the deciding factor…
Devotional
…trust; He will bring it to pass. Trust and commitment are one action. Jeremiah 17:7-8 The person who trusts God is a tree by water, still green in drought. Trust is described by what it survives. Romans 8:28 Paul's…
Book of the Bible
Jeremiah has 52 chapters.
Biblical concept
…and the sound of it in a town meant life was going on as normal. Jeremiah 25:10 names the silencing of the millstones as a picture of desolation. There was rarely a store to fall back on. Abraham tells Sarah to take…
Biblical concept
…and David each carry a sign or an oath, and each is initiated by God. Jeremiah 31 promises a new covenant with the law written on the heart and sins remembered no more. Luke 22:20 has Jesus name the cup as the new…
Biblical concept
…Deception enters through speech about God, not through force. Prophets Jeremiah 17:9 says the heart is deceitful above all things, moving the problem inward. Gospels Jesus warns repeatedly that many will be deceived,…
Biblical concept
…A shoot from the stump of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1), a righteous branch (Jeremiah 23:5), and a king coming humble on a donkey (Zechariah 9:9). Gospels Announced as the one who will receive the throne of His father David (Luke…
Biblical concept
…this everyday term and loads it with meaning no well digger intended. Jeremiah 2:13 They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed themselves cisterns that can hold no water. John 4:14 Whoever drinks of…
Word and phrase
…OT Isaiah 61:10 He has covered me with the robe of righteousness. OT Jeremiah 23:6 The LORD our righteousness. NT Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. NT Romans 3:22 The righteousness…
Biblical concept
…come Himself and to set one shepherd, David, over them (Ezekiel 34:23, Jeremiah 23:1-6). Gospels Jesus has compassion on crowds who are as sheep without a shepherd (Mark 6:34) and claims the promise directly in John 10.…
Biblical concept
…with a winepress, and it produced wild grapes instead of good ones. Jeremiah 2 uses the same image and the same disappointment: I planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed, how then are you turned into the…
Biblical concept
…vineyard that yielded wild grapes (Isaiah 5), with the same picture in Jeremiah 2:21 and Hosea 10:1. Gospels Parables of the tenants, the labourers and the fig tree in the vineyard, and then John 15 where Jesus takes…
Bible question
…which relocates the whole question away from our performance. Jeremiah 29:12 Then shall you call upon me, and I will hearken to you. This is said to exiles in Babylon, people who had every reason to assume God had…
Bible question
…heed lest he fall. Perseverance itself is promised and produced by God Jeremiah 32:40 God promises to put his fear in their hearts so that they will not turn away from him. 1 Peter 1:5 Believers are guarded through…
Bible question
…is the ordinary pattern of guidance rather than an exception to it. Jeremiah 29:11 'I know the thoughts that I think toward you... thoughts of peace, and not of evil.' Spoken to exiles about a seventy-year captivity,…
Bible question
…comparing every teacher, including trusted ones, with the written word. Jeremiah against the prophets of peace Jeremiah 23:16-22 Jeremiah faced popular prophets who told the nation what it wanted to hear while calamity…
Bible question
…in the LORD is set directly against leaning on one's own understanding. Jeremiah 17:5-7 Cursed is the man that trusts in man, blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, framed as opposite destinies. Psalms 20:7 Some…
Bible question
…new heart and new spirit and cause his people to walk in his statutes. Jeremiah 31:33 The new covenant promise of God's law written on the heart rather than on tablets. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Old things passed away, all…
Bible question
…a task and other people, which is usually how he answers it still. Jeremiah, isolated by obedience Jeremiah 15:17-21 Jeremiah sat alone because God's hand was on him. His faithfulness cost him friendship, and he told…
Bible question
…us. He wants to be known, and says knowing him is what to boast in Jeremiah 9:23-24 Let not the wise, the mighty or the rich glory in what they have. Let the one who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows…
Bible question
…am?” They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living…
Bible question
…a written covenant can be read back to a nation and to its children. Jeremiah and Baruch, and a king with a knife Jeremiah 36:1-32 Jeremiah dictated God's words to Baruch, who wrote them on a scroll. King Jehoiakim cut…
Bible question
…correct. God does not pretend that suffering is good Lamentations 3:32 Jeremiah writes that God does not afflict willingly. Scripture is willing to place grief and sovereignty in the same sentence without resolving the…
The Sunday Study
Verse-by-verse teaching with historical context, and a prayer to close. Nothing else in the email.