Jeremiah 2:2
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear!
I remember the devotion[a] of your youth,
how you loved me as a bride,
Following me in the wilderness,
in a land unsown.(A)
Footnotes
- 2:2 Devotion: Heb. hesed; Israel’s gratitude, fidelity, and love for God.
James 1:18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
18 (A)He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.[a]
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- 1:18 Acceptance of the gospel message, the word of truth, constitutes new birth (Jn 3:5–6) and makes the recipient the firstfruits (i.e., the cultic offering of the earliest grains, symbolizing the beginning of an abundant harvest) of a new creation; cf. 1 Cor 15:20; Rom 8:23.
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