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. I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
⛓ 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I will put my Spirit within you' supplies the promise of the indwelling Spirit that Paul says God 'gave... in our hearts.' The new-covenant gift of an internal Spirit, paired with a new heart, coheres precisely with Paul's sealing and down-payment of the Spirit in the heart. Strong thematic coherence.
Medium confidence2:29 'in the spirit, not in the letter' echoes the new-heart promise, 'I will give you a new heart... and put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes' — Spirit-wrought interior obedience over external observance.
Medium confidence"Poured out into our hearts... the Holy Spirit who was given to us" (5:5): "I will give you a new heart... I will put my Spirit within you." The new-covenant promise of God's Spirit placed within the heart matches Paul's interiorized gift of the Spirit and love.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Spirit 'put within' God's people to enable obedience is the other great prophetic promise standing behind 'the promise of the Father.' Volume is low (no shared wording in translation), but Thematic Coherence is strong: Ezekiel's interiorized Spirit is the renewal-of-Israel hope that the apostles' question in v.6 presupposes. Recurrence modest. Honestly faint relative to Joel, hence echo/medium.
Medium confidenceThe promise of a new spirit causing the people to walk in God's statutes parallels 'sanctification of the Spirit' as the means of salvation; faint and conceptual.
Low confidenceThe promise of a new heart and spirit enabling obedience underlies the capacity to keep the 'new' commandment of love. The link is thematic to the new-covenant cluster and not verbally explicit. Faint, marked contested.
Low confidenceNew heart and new spirit enabling obedience; 'newness of life' (6:4, kainotes zoes) coheres with the prophetic promise of interior renewal. Faint and disputed verbal contact, but the renewal/new-walk theme is shared.
Low confidence