You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 1 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.
Acting 'without prejudice' and refusing partiality echoes Moses' charge to judges: 'You shall not be partial in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike.' The impartiality demanded of Israel's judges becomes the rule for Timothy's oversight.
Medium confidenceDeuteronomy 1:17 enjoins judges to 'not be partial in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike.' James's scene of seating the rich well and the poor poorly enacts the very partiality this Mosaic charge to judges forbids. Volume and recurrence support the echo though no quotation is made.
Medium confidence