God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
⛓ Read Genesis 1 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.
'Every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected' directly recalls God's verdict over creation, 'God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.' Paul grounds the rejection of food asceticism in the original goodness of all created things.
High confidenceThe crowd's acclamation 'he has done all things well' (panta kalos pepoieken) echoes the creation refrain that God saw all he had made and it was 'very good' (LXX kala lian), casting Jesus' restorative work as a new creation. The verbal contact (kalos / kala) and theme of God making/doing all things well give the allusion real volume.
Medium confidenceThe maxim 'to the pure, all things are pure' (1:15) presupposes the creation verdict that God saw all that he had made 'and behold, it was very good.' The goodness of all created things grounds Paul's rejection of the ascetic/ritual purity demands of the teachers.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God's purposeful arrangement of each member 'just as he desired,' with each part necessary, faintly echoes the creation account in which God orders distinct parts and pronounces the whole very good. The connection is thematic (divine sovereign design) rather than lexical.
Low confidence