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Jeremiah 3:15 to Jeremiah 3:15
Place two to six verses in an order you want to study. Read their surrounding chapters before drawing a conclusion about how they relate.
A worked comparison
Feeding the flock: compare care without merging audiences
How does the shepherding image describe responsible care in these passages?
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- Jeremiah 3:15 — Begin with the call to return in verses 12–14. What kind of feeding does the promise describe?
- Jeremiah 23:4 — Read verses 1–4 for the contrast between scattering and gathering. Record what the promised shepherds do.
- Acts 20:28 — Read verses 28–31. Compare the responsibility to care and watch; retain the difference between Paul’s elders and Jeremiah’s audience.
- Jeremiah 3:15 — Return to the first passage. Write one connection and one difference; avoid using the image to give any leader immunity from correction.
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Your trail
Open or edit a list of compact verse IDs
- 1. Jeremiah 3:15
- 2. Jeremiah 23:4
- 3. Acts 20:28
- 4. Jeremiah 3:15
Read each verse in context
Step 1
Jeremiah 3:15
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Step 2
Jeremiah 23:4
And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
Step 3
Acts 20:28
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Step 4
Jeremiah 3:15
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
This sequence was assembled by a reader. A link between verses is an invitation to compare their contexts, not a claim that one proves another.