I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
⛓ Read Genesis 17 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.
'To Abraham and his seed forever' takes up the Abrahamic covenant, 'to be God to you and to your offspring after you... an everlasting covenant' (Genesis 17:7; cf. 13:15). The to-Abraham-and-his-seed-forever formula is distinctive covenant language; high volume.
High confidence'the covenant which God made with our fathers' (v. 25) recalls the everlasting covenant established with Abraham and his seed; supplies the covenantal frame for the quoted blessing.
Medium confidence15:8: Christ became a servant of the circumcision 'to confirm the promises given to the fathers.' The patriarchal promises (Genesis 12:3; 17:4-7; 22:18) — that in Abraham all nations would be blessed — are the substrate; the Gentile-inclusion catena is presented as their fulfillment. Conceptual allusion rather than verbal.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The covenants' and 'the promises' (vv.4) point to the patriarchal covenant with Abraham and his seed, the seed-theme Paul immediately develops in vv.6-9.
Medium confidenceThe 'promise' according to which Paul is sent recalls the patriarchal covenant promise to Abraham and his seed; Pauline 'promise' theology consistently roots in this Genesis covenant. Faint here, marked contested.
Low confidence'Children of the stock of Abraham' rests on the covenant with Abraham and his seed; the word of salvation comes first to the covenant heirs. Generic covenant background.
Low confidence