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Jared
[People]Jared is an antediluvian figure who appears in the genealogy of Genesis 5. He was the son of Mahalaleel, the father of Enoch, and the grandfather of Methuselah. Scripture records that he lived 962 years.
Jehudijah
[People]Jehudijah was the wife of Mered in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4:18 and the mother of Jered, Heber, and Jekuthiel.
Jeremiah
[Bible]Jeremiah is one of the Major Prophets of the Old Testament. It records the prophecies and life of the prophet Jeremiah, who ministered during the period when the Kingdom of Judah fell.
Jeremiah 1:5
[Bible Verses]A verse from the call narrative of Jeremiah in which God declares that He knew Jeremiah before forming him in the womb, sanctified him before he came forth, and ordained him a prophet to the nations. It is a representative verse on vocation and divine foreknowledge and is also cited in discussions of predestination and bioethics.
Jeremiah 17:9
[Bible Verses]A lament declaring that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, and asking who can know it. It is a classic verse on the sinfulness of human nature and is frequently cited in discussions among denominations concerning original sin and the doctrine of total depravity.
Jeremiah 29:11
[Bible Verses]Jeremiah 29:11 is the promise that God's thoughts toward his people are thoughts of peace and not of evil, intended to give them a future and a hope. It is one of the verses most frequently used at graduations and new beginnings, and it often prompts debate over whether a word given to the community of exiles in Babylon may be applied as a promise of personal success.
Jeremiah 31:31–33
[Bible Verses]God's promise to make a new covenant with Israel and Judah and to write his law on their hearts. It is the principal Old Testament passage in which the phrase "new covenant" appears. The New Testament presents this promise as fulfilled in Christ, and the passage stands at the center of debates among theological systems over the relationship between the church and Israel.
Jeremiah 33:3
[Bible Verses]Jeremiah 33:3 contains the divine promise "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." Interpreters differ over the meaning of the "great and mighty things." In Korean Protestant churches the verse is widely used as the representative text for crying-out prayer and audible, unison prayer (tongseong gido).
Jeremiah (Prophet)
[People]Jeremiah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered from the final years of the Kingdom of Judah into the early period of the Babylonian exile. He warned of the destruction of Jerusalem, prophesied the "new covenant," and is known as "the weeping prophet."
Jeremiah 18:1–10
[Bible Verses]A passage that speaks of God's sovereignty through the image of a potter reshaping a marred vessel and sets out the principle that God "repents" of calamity or blessing depending on how a nation responds. It is frequently cited in discussions of predestination and free will.
Jeremiah 23:29
[Bible Verses]Jeremiah 23:29 is a verse that likens the word of God to "a fire" and to "a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." Because it appears in a passage rebuking false prophets, it is frequently cited in discussions of the power of God's word and of discerning true from false prophecy.
Jeremiah 1:6-10
[Bible Verses]A passage in which the prophet Jeremiah hesitates at his call, protesting "I am a child," and God promises to be with him and puts His words in his mouth. It is frequently cited in sermons on calling and mission.
Jeremiah 31:34
[Bible Verses]Jeremiah 31:34 is the final verse of the new covenant prophecy (Jeremiah 31:31-34). It promises that all the people will know the LORD and that their sins will be forgiven and remembered no more. Because the Epistle to the Hebrews quotes it, the verse is frequently cited in discussions of the forgiveness of sins and the new covenant, and it also figures in debates over baptism.
Jeremiah 17:5–10
[Bible Verses]Jeremiah 17:5–10 is a prophetic oracle of Jeremiah that compares the one who trusts in man to a shrub in the desert and the one who trusts in the LORD to a tree planted by the waters. Verse 9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," is frequently cited to explain human sinfulness.
Jeremiah 33:6–9
[Bible Verses]Jeremiah 33:6–9 is a passage in which God promises to heal Jerusalem, then besieged by Babylon and on the verge of collapse, to bring back its captives, and to forgive its sins. Because it contains promises of restoration and forgiveness, it is frequently cited in sermons on healing and restoration.
Jeremiah 29:4–14
[Bible Verses]Part of Jeremiah's letter to the exiles in Babylon, containing the exhortation to settle in the land of exile and seek the peace of the city, together with the promise of return after seventy years. Verse 11 is widely quoted as a verse of encouragement, though some caution that it must be read in its context.
Jeremiah 6:16
[Bible Verses]A verse in which God tells the people of Judah to stand at the crossroads, ask for "the old paths, where is the good way," and walk in it, promising that they will find rest; the people, however, refuse. It is frequently cited in appeals to "return to the old paths."
Jeremiah 3:23
[Bible Verses]Jeremiah 3:23 is a verse in which the people confess that pagan worship on the hills is in vain and that the salvation of Israel is in the LORD alone. It is cited both as the confession of a repentant people and as a confession of faith expressing reliance on God alone.
Joachim Jeremias
[People]Joachim Jeremias (1900–1979) was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar. He studied the parables of Jesus, the words of institution of the Lord's Supper, and Jesus' use of the address "Abba," and he exerted a lasting influence on the interpretation of the parables.
Jeremiah 4
[Bible]Jeremiah 4 urges Israel to return to God and circumcise their hearts, then depicts an invasion from the north and the desolation of the land of Judah, recording the lament of the prophet who witnesses it.