For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 14 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The LORD has chosen you to be a people for his own possession... a holy people' supplies both the election verb and the 'holy/possession' pairing that Ephesians 1:4 and 1:14 develop. Recurrence with Deut 7:6 reinforces a settled Deuteronomic formula; thematic coherence with adoption and inheritance is high.
High confidence'The redemption of God's own possession' reproduces Deuteronomy's 'a people for his own possession (peripoiesis/segullah).' Volume is strong on the possession motif; recurrence (Deut 7:6; 26:18; Exod 19:5) and thematic coherence (redeemed people belonging to God) make this a controlling subtext for 1:14.
High confidenceRestates the election of Israel as a 'peculiar people' / treasured possession, directly informing the 'people for his own possession' language of v.14.
High confidenceJames says God 'first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name' (v.14). The phrase 'a people for his name/possession' reuses the election formula by which Israel was 'a people for his own possession' — now extended to Gentiles. Strong thematic reuse of covenant election language.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession' reinforces the election language behind God's choosing the Thessalonians for salvation.
Medium confidence