Jeremiah 29:7 (WEB)
Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”
Fathers and councils · 3
“Moreover the people were ordered both to pray for those by whom they were detained in captivity, and in their peace to hope for peace, to the effect that they should beget children, and build houses, and plant gardens and vineyards.” — editor's note: Jer. xxix. 4–7
Read the whole comment““For in their peace shall be your peace.”” — editor's note: Jer. xxix. 7.
Read the whole comment“…to go obediently to Babylonia, and thus serve their God, counselled them also to pray for Babylonia, saying, “In the peace thereof shall ye have peace,”—the temporal peace which the good and the wicked together enjoy.” — editor's note: Jer. xxix. 7.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.26 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.26.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.
Cited together in On the Catechising of the Uninstructed Chapter 21.