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Key Bible Verses — Important Scriptures to Read and Understand
Important passages from Genesis to Revelation, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version, with where it comes from and what it means in its setting.
Key passages about Jeremiah
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Before I formed you in the womb
God's words at Jeremiah's call: he knew and set him apart as a prophet to the nations before he was born.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. Plans to give you hope and a future
From Jeremiah's letter to Judeans already taken to Babylon. God told them to settle there, build houses and seek the city's welfare for seventy years (29:4-10); this promise of a…
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. I will write my law on their hearts
The promise of the new covenant: God will put his law within his people and forgive their sin. Hebrews 8:8-12 quotes the passage.
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’ Call to me, and I will answer you
God speaks to Jeremiah while he is confined during the siege of Jerusalem, promising to show him things he does not know about the city's future restoration.