I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 37 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The Spirit gives life' echoes the valley-of-bones promise, Ezekiel 37:14: 'I shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live.' The life-giving function of the Spirit is verbally and thematically tight, and Ezekiel's spirit-life motif coheres with Paul's new-covenant argument.
High confidence'I will put my Spirit in you' restates the promise of 36:27, linking the Spirit's indwelling to new covenant life. Reinforces the Ezekielian background for God 'who gives his Holy Spirit.'
Medium confidence'I will put my Spirit in you and you shall live' (the dry-bones vision) lies behind v.11, where the Spirit who raised Jesus 'will also give life to your mortal bodies'; Spirit-giving-life-to-dead-bodies is the precise Ezekielian figure.
Medium confidenceI will put my Spirit in you and you shall live undergirds the link between Spirit-indwelling and the hope of eternal life in verse 7. The vivifying gift of the Spirit that raises the dead nation prefigures regeneration unto life.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live,' the promise of the indwelling life-giving Spirit. This reinforces 'we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.' A strong new-covenant Spirit parallel.
Medium confidenceGod puts his one Spirit within the reconstituted people so that a scattered, divided house becomes one living body. The creation of a unified people animated by God's Spirit faintly underlies Paul's 'in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body.'
Low confidence'If we live by the Spirit' resonates with Ezekiel's promise 'I will put my Spirit in you and you shall live,' the new-covenant linkage of Spirit and resurrection-life. Coherence is good with Paul's Spirit-life theme, though here it is a faint thematic echo without verbal citation.
Low confidence