“You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
⛓ Read Exodus 20 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'You shall not take the name of the LORD in vain' — the Decalogue prohibition behind false/empty swearing.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Perjurers' specifically transgress the commandment against taking the LORD's name in vain by false swearing. Paul's inclusion of oath-breakers reaches back to the third commandment. A targeted echo of the Decalogue's name-honoring command.
Medium confidenceJewish exorcists invoke the name of the Lord Jesus illegitimately and are violently humiliated; the prohibition against taking the divine name in vain stands behind the danger of wielding a holy name without authorization. Conceptual, low verbal contact. Contested.
Low confidence