Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 6 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.
Quotation3
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'There is one God' restates the Shema's confession that the LORD is one, the foundational monotheistic creed of Israel. Paul reframes the Shema christologically by adding the one mediator, but the bedrock affirmation of divine oneness is directly drawn from Deuteronomy. This is the clearest scriptural anchor of verse 5.
High confidence'You believe that God is one' (v.19) cites the Shema, Deuteronomy 6:4, 'Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one.' James affirms monotheism then notes even demons hold it and shudder, making the point that bare belief without works is insufficient.
High confidence'There is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith' (3:30) grounds itself in the Shema's 'the LORD is one'; Paul turns Israel's monotheistic confession into the warrant for one way of justification for Jew and Gentile.
High confidenceAllusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"There is no God but one" (v.4) and "to us there is one God" (v.6) directly rework the Shema, "the LORD our God, the LORD is one." Paul splits the one kyrios-theos confession into "one God, the Father" and "one Lord, Jesus Christ," a christological re-reading of the foundational monotheistic creed. High volume, high coherence, and the Shema's universal availability make this the controlling OT text of the pericope.
High confidence'The only God' (God who alone is wise / only God) is the Shema's confession that the LORD is one. Paul's monotheistic doxology rests on Israel's foundational creed. The Shema secures the 'only God' acclamation.
High confidenceThe Shema's 'the LORD is one' undergirds the confession 'one Lord... one God and Father of all.' Volume is high (the monotheistic 'one' refrain saturates the unit) and coherence with Paul's elsewhere-cited Shema theology is strong. The creed reworks Israel's central confession into a sevenfold unity claim.
High confidenceJesus' rejoinder 'No one is good except one—God' reflects the Shema's confession of God's oneness and uniqueness, here applied to the predicate of goodness. The 'one' (heis) language coheres with Deuteronomic monotheism. The link is conceptual but anchored in the distinctive 'one God' formula.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Hear, O Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one' resonates behind 'I and the Father are one' (v.30). The Shema's oneness language is reframed christologically; coherent with the blasphemy charge that follows, though the unity claimed is functional/relational.
Medium confidence'The only true God' (v3) presses the Shema's confession of the one LORD. Monotheistic exclusivity is the coherent backdrop, and John's 'only true' renders the Shema's uniqueness; modest Volume since the wording is interpretive rather than quoted.
Medium confidence