Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
⛓ Read Habakkuk 2 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.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'The righteous will live by faith' cites Hab 2:4, a programmatic text Paul also uses at Romans 1:17 (and Hebrews 10:38), giving strong recurrence. Paul follows a form close to the LXX but drops the possessive pronoun. The faith/life antithesis is the hinge of his argument.
High confidenceFormula-marked ('As it is written') verbatim citation: 'the righteous shall live by faith.' The thesis-text of Romans. Highest volume and satisfaction; Paul reads ho dikaios ek pisteos against the LXX/MT to ground righteousness-by-faith.
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The righteousness which is from God by faith,' set against the law's righteousness, restates Paul's governing text 'the righteous shall live by faith' (cf. Rom 1:17; Gal 3:11). The faith/law antithesis here is the same justification doctrine Habakkuk anchors.
High confidence'The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith' (v.20) anticipates and draws on 'the righteous shall live by faith,' the verse Paul quotes explicitly at 3:11. Coherence with the letter's core thesis is high and recurrence within Galatians strengthens the case, though here the allusion is woven rather than cited.
Medium confidenceEcho8
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'We walk by faith, not by sight' restates the Habakkuk principle that the righteous live by faith/faithfulness, a text Paul cites programmatically elsewhere (Rom 1:17; Gal 3:11). The verbal echo is loose but the theological content—life ordered by trust rather than visible evidence—coheres tightly with Habakkuk's contrast between the proud who rely on sight and the faithful who wait.
Medium confidenceThe thesis of 'righteousness of God through faith' (3:21-22) carries forward the programmatic citation of 1:17, 'the righteous shall live by faith'; the faith-righteousness axis here is governed by Habakkuk even without re-quotation.
Medium confidence"The righteous shall live by faith" is Paul's thesis text (Romans 1:17) and stands behind "being justified by faith" (5:1). The faith-life pairing of Habakkuk 2:4 resonates in the move from justification by faith to being "saved by his life" (5:10), though no verbal quotation appears here.
Medium confidence'The righteous shall live by his faith(fulness)' supplies the OT root of Paul's enduring 'faith' (pistis) in the triad faith-hope-love that 'remains.' The prophetic grounding of life in abiding faith coheres with Paul's claim that faith abides into the eschaton, a thematic rather than verbal echo.
Low confidence'Through the Spirit, by faith we wait for the hope of righteousness' recalls the prophetic axiom that the righteous shall live by faith, which Paul cites at 3:11. The faith-righteousness pairing coheres strongly, though here it is allusive rather than quoted.
Low confidence'The one who believes... has life' vs. the disobedient who 'won't see life' faintly mirrors the righteous living by faith over against the unbelieving; faint, conceptual.
Low confidence'Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed' (20:29) coheres with 'the righteous shall live by his faith,' the OT charter of faith-not-sight. Thematic rather than verbal; faint and one of several wisdom/faith backgrounds.
Low confidence'The righteous shall live by his faith.' The whole pericope's contrast of unbelief versus mustard-seed faith resonates with the prophetic valuation of faith, though no verbal borrowing. Thematic.
Low confidence