Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
⛓ Read Amos 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret (sod) to his servants the prophets' is echoed almost verbatim in 'the mystery of God... as he declared to his servants, the prophets.' Strong verbal volume.
High confidence'The mystery... has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit' coheres tightly with Amos 3:7, 'the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.' The structural pattern (God reveals hidden counsel specifically through prophets) is the same, and Paul names 'prophets' as the recipients, strengthening coherence even though there is no direct quotation.
Medium confidenceEcho7
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The prophetic-disclosure formula 'Thus says the Holy Spirit' adapts the standard messenger formula 'Thus says the LORD' (pervasive in the prophets), grounding Agabus in OT prophetic speech; high recurrence of the formula across the prophets, low verbal specificity to any single text.
Medium confidence'The Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets' undergirds 'to them it was revealed' that they served a later generation (1:12); thematic, low verbal volume.
Low confidenceThe disciples warn Paul 'through the Spirit' not to go up to Jerusalem, reflecting the prophetic principle that the Lord reveals coming events to his servants; faint thematic resonance with prophetic foreknowledge rather than a verbal borrowing.
Low confidenceThe disclosure of a previously hidden divine plan now 'revealed to his saints' (v.26) faintly echoes 'the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret (sod) to his servants the prophets.' The hidden-counsel-now-disclosed prophetic motif is coherent though diffuse.
Low confidence'it came to me through revelation' fits the prophetic axiom that the Lord reveals his secret (sod) to his servants the prophets. Supports Paul casting his call as prophetic disclosure rather than tradition; faint and thematic only, hence low/contested.
Low confidence'The Lord GOD will do nothing but he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets' undergirds 'he will declare to you things that are coming' — the Spirit functioning as the prophetic revealer of God's hidden future. Coherence with the disclosure-of-the-future clause is good though the allusion is diffuse.
Low confidenceThe pairing of revealing 'his secret to his servants the prophets' coheres with John's 'show to his servants' through the prophet-mediator John. Faint, conceptual echo only; no distinctive shared vocabulary in WEB/LXX, hence low confidence and contested.
Low confidence