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Deuteronomy 30:15

The New Testament’s use of Deuteronomy

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Behold, I have set before you this day life and prosperity, and death and evil.

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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.

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Mark 3:1-6 ?

Jesus' antithesis 'to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to kill' mirrors the Deuteronomic covenant choice 'I have set before you life and death, good and evil.' The paired good/evil, life/death structure suggests a deliberate framing of Sabbath observance as a covenant life-or-death decision. Thematic coherence is high though no verbatim quotation.

Medium confidence
1 Tim 4:6-10 ?

Godliness 'having the promise of the life which is now and that which is to come' draws on the Deuteronomic offer of life through covenant fidelity, 'I have set before you life and good... that you may live.' The promise-of-life motif is reframed in two-age terms.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Deuteronomy 30
Deuteronomy 30:4 3Deuteronomy 30:6 12Deuteronomy 30:11-14 5Deuteronomy 30:11 2Deuteronomy 30:15-19 5Deuteronomy 30:15-20 3Deuteronomy 30:20 3