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Proverbs 11:25

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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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.

2 Cor 9:8-11 ?

The sapiential principle that 'the liberal soul shall be made fat, and he who waters will himself be watered' parallels Paul's promise that giving leads to being 'enriched in everything.' The reciprocal-blessing logic matches, but the link is conceptual and contested rather than verbal. Included as a maximal flag in the generosity-enrichment cluster.

Low confidence
2 Tim 1:15-18 ?

Onesiphorus 'often refreshed me' and the prayer for his reward echoes 'whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.' The one-who-refreshes-will-be-refreshed proverb closely matches the language and logic of Paul's blessing.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Proverbs 11
Proverbs 11:18 2Proverbs 11:24-25 2Proverbs 11:28 3Proverbs 11:30 4