for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.
⛓ Read Leviticus 16 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Christ as the "atoning sacrifice for our sins" draws on the Day of Atonement, the single day on which atonement is made for all the sins of the people. The hilasmos language of propitiation is rooted in the Levitical cult that cleanses Israel before the LORD. John universalizes the rite to encompass the whole world.
High confidenceOn the Day of Atonement 'you shall be clean before the LORD from all your sins' through the sacrificial blood, undergirding the claim that the blood cleanses from all sin. 1 John transposes the cultic purgation onto the blood of Jesus.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The cleansing 'from all your sins' on the Day of Atonement underlies the promise to cleanse from all unrighteousness. The cultic language of total purgation reappears alongside confession.
Low confidence'To reconcile all things to himself... making peace through the blood of his cross' (v.20) reframes the Day of Atonement reconciliation accomplished by blood. The blood-effecting-reconciliation logic is Levitical; volume low because Colossians universalizes it cosmically rather than cultically.
Low confidence