neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Purify for himself a people' (v.14) echoes 'I will cleanse them... so they shall be my people, and I will be their God.' The cleansing-to-be-a-people motif of the new covenant underlies the purifying purpose of redemption.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The adjacent verse promising cleansing from idols ('they shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols') resonates with Paul's 'what agreement has a temple of God with idols?' Volume low, but coherent contextual support for the Ezekiel 37 source.
Low confidence