“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The charge against one who says 'I love God' yet hates his brother draws on the Holiness Code: 'you shall not hate your brother in your heart... you shall love your neighbor as yourself.' John binds love of God inseparably to love of the visible brother, fulfilling the neighbor command.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The command not to sin against your neighbor but to love him stands behind Paul's charge that wounding the weak brother's conscience is to "sin against the brothers" (v.12). Paul's love-of-neighbor logic governing this chapter draws on the Holiness Code's brother/neighbor ethic. Coherence strong with the love-builds-up theme of 8:1.
Medium confidenceReproof of 'your brother/neighbor' without bearing sin or grudge frames the speck-and-beam logic: correction must be cleansed of self-righteousness; 'brother' language matches Lev's love-of-neighbor unit.
Medium confidence