When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 3 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.
The original commissioning of the watchman: if he warns and the wicked does not turn, 'you will have delivered your soul.' Paul's 'I am clean / your blood on your heads' draws on this earlier statement of the same principle.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You will die in your sins' echoes Ezekiel's watchman warning that the wicked 'shall die in his iniquity' if unwarned. Moderate Coherence: John uses the prophetic death-in-sin formula for those who reject the light, and Ezekiel is its densest source.
Medium confidence