“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your seed and your name shall remain.
⛓ Read Isaiah 66 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.
'The new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me' is the companion promise behind Peter's hope of the abiding new creation where righteousness is at home.
High confidenceIsaiah 66:22's "new heavens and new earth" that shall remain reinforces 65:17 as the scriptural matrix for the abiding "new creation" of v.15. The pairing supplies recurrence within Isaiah; coherence with Paul's contrast between old marks-in-the-flesh and new creation is strong.
High confidenceDoublet of 65:17: 'the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me' — reinforces the eschatological permanence theme. Together with 65:17 establishes the dominant intertext.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me'—the enduring new creation reinforces the new-creation motif of 5:17. Recurrence within Isaiah's new-creation cluster (43; 65; 66) strengthens the case that Paul draws on this stream, though 65:17 is the closer verbal match.
Medium confidence'The new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain' reinforces the 'regeneration' framework of the promised renewal.
Low confidence