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Ecclesiastes 7:20

The New Testament’s use of Ecclesiastes

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth, who does good and doesn’t sin.

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

1 John 1:8

'There is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins' restates the universal sinfulness that makes the claim to be without sin self-deceptive. A close sapiential parallel.

Medium confidence
Rom 3:9-20 ?

'There is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins' supplies the same universal-sin thesis as the catena's opening 'none righteous... none does good' (3:10-12); a wisdom-tradition reinforcement of the Psalm 14 verdict.

Medium confidence