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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

1 John 5:14-15 → Jeremiah 29:12-13

Echo

Later text

1 John 5:14-15BSB

And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.

Earlier text

Jeremiah 29:12-13BSB

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square14:04

Significance

John's prayer assurance — "If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us" — echoes Jeremiah's covenant promise to the exiles: "You will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart" (Jer 29:12-13). Both passages ground prayer confidence in God's covenant commitment to hear His people. Jeremiah's promise was given in the context of exile — a people far from God who nonetheless could approach Him — and John applies this same assurance to the New Covenant community. The condition "according to His will" parallels Jeremiah's "with all your heart" — both require alignment with God's purposes rather than selfish petition. What Jeremiah promised to the returning exiles, John declares fulfilled for those who are "in Him who is true."

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment