“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
⛓ Read Leviticus 19 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.
Allusion5
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"You shall not hate your brother in your heart" stands directly behind John's contrast between loving and hating one's brother. The man who hates his brother walks contrary to this explicit prohibition.
High confidence'Go, show him his fault between you and him alone' enacts the Holiness Code command 'you shall surely reprove your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him' — private, loving rebuke that does not let sin fester into hatred.
High confidence'Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother' enacts the Holiness Code command not to hate your brother in your heart but to reason with/reprove your neighbor. The pattern of corrective rebuke that preserves fraternal love is the same.
Medium confidenceThe Holiness Code commands 'you shall surely rebuke your neighbor' rather than bear sin against him, the foundational text for fraternal correction that Jesus reproduces almost as a paraphrase ('rebuke him'). High Coherence with the surrounding love-of-neighbor frame and strong recurrence of this verse in Second-Temple reproof ethics give it good standing.
Medium confidence'You shall not hate your brother in your heart' — the interiorizing of murder into anger toward 'your brother' draws on the Holiness Code.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The careful, non-shaming manner of correction ('do not rebuke... exhort') may echo the Holiness Code's directive to reason frankly with a neighbor rather than incur sin through hatred. The aim of rebuke without harshness reflects the Torah's regulated form of fraternal reproof.
Low confidence