He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
⛓ Read Micah 6 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
"You bypass justice and the love of God" against punctilious tithing echoes "to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God." Micah's prophetic priority of justice over ritual is the controlling intertext of the first woe (11:42).
High confidence"The weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith(fulness)" (v23) closely echoes 'to do justice, and to love mercy (hesed), and to walk humbly' — the prophetic distillation of true Torah.
High confidence'...to do justice, and to love mercy (hesed), and to walk humbly with your God.' James's exaltation of mercy as triumphing over judgment (v.13) draws on the prophetic prizing of mercy as the heart of covenant obedience.
Medium confidenceJohn's practical ethics of justice and mercy (share clothing/food, no extortion, no false accusation) embody Micah 6:8's demand to do justice and love mercy as the true fruit of repentance. The prophetic reduction of repentance to concrete social righteousness gives strong Coherence with John's program.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
To 'walk worthily of the calling... with all lowliness and humility' fuses the prophetic summons to 'walk humbly with your God.' Volume is moderate (shared 'walk' + 'humility' word-field) and the coherence is strong with Paul's halakhic ethics. Availability is secure; the trope of covenantal walking is widely diffused across the OT.
Medium confidenceTo do justice, love mercy (hesed), walk humbly — clusters mercy, righteousness, and humility that pervade the beatitudes.
Medium confidence'To do justice, and to love kindness (chesed), and to walk humbly with your God' offers an OT triad of enduring religious requirements culminating in covenant love. The form of a compressed triad whose summit is love/chesed loosely anticipates Paul's faith-hope-love crowned by the greatest, love. Faint formal echo.
Low confidence