There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty. The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
⛓ Read Proverbs 11 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The paradox that the Macedonians' deep poverty 'abounded to the riches of their liberality' (v.2) echoes the wisdom maxim that one who scatters yet increases and the liberal soul is made rich. The generosity-brings-abundance reversal is a recurring sapiential theme Paul draws on through the chapter; volume is modest, coherence strong.
Medium confidence'It is more blessed to give than to receive' (v.35) coheres with the wisdom maxim that the one who scatters increases while the one who withholds comes to want, and the generous soul is enriched; OT sapiential ground for the generosity logion.
Medium confidence