Jeremiah key verses

Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

God’s sovereign call of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 2:13 “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”

The heart of Judah’s sin

Jeremiah 9:24 “Let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness.”

The one true boast

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”

The diagnosis of the human heart

Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

God’s purpose beyond judgment

Jeremiah 31:33 “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”

The New Covenant

Jeremiah 23:6 “And this is the name by which he will be called: ’The LORD is our righteousness.’”

The righteous Branch, the coming King