I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 36 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Hearts of flesh' as the surface of inscription, contrasted with stone, directly takes up Ezekiel 36:26: 'I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.' The stone/flesh-heart antithesis is verbally exact and thematically central, scoring high on volume and coherence.
High confidence'Be renewed in the spirit of your mind' and 'new man' draw on the promise of a 'new heart and a new spirit' replacing the heart of stone. Volume is moderate (new + spirit + interior renewal) and the eschatological-renewal coherence is strong, contrasting the hardened hearts of 4:18.
Medium confidenceEcho5
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The promise of a new heart and a new spirit illumines the "new commandment" that becomes true in the believer as the darkness passes and the true light shines. The eschatological renewal makes the old command newly possible.
Medium confidenceThe promise of a "new heart" and "new spirit" undergirds Paul's interior new-creation reality over against fleshly circumcision (vv.12-15). Coherence with the flesh/Spirit antithesis of the chapter is high, though the language is anthropological rather than cosmic; corroborating echo.
Medium confidenceThe promise of a 'new heart and a new spirit' stands behind 'be transformed by the renewing of your mind'; the eschatological interior renewal of the prophets is here applied to the believing community.
Medium confidenceThe verse immediately following the sprinkling promise: ‘draw near with a true heart’ (v. 22) faintly carries Ezekiel's new-heart language into the same breath as his clean-water language. Low volume, but recurrence of the Ezek 36:25–27 unit in early-Christian new-covenant texts (cf. the Spirit ‘written on hearts’ motif) gives it standing.
Low confidenceThe promise to remove the heart of stone faintly contrasts with the 'hardness of heart' that necessitated the divorce concession 'from the beginning it was not so.'
Low confidence