The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Filled with the fruits of righteousness' draws on the wisdom/prophetic image where righteousness yields fruit: 'the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.' Coherence with the agricultural righteousness-fruit metaphor is strong and recurrent across wisdom and prophets; volume moderate.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's 'fruits of your righteousness' resonates with the wisdom maxim 'the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,' part of the same sapiential harvest imagery. The link is idiomatic and faint relative to Hosea 10:12, so volume is low and the source contested. Flagged for completeness within the righteousness-as-fruit cluster.
Low confidence‘The peaceful fruit of righteousness’ (v. 11) faintly recalls the wisdom idiom ‘fruit of the righteous’ (Prov 11:30). Low volume — a stock metaphor rather than a pointed citation; offered for maximal coverage.
Low confidenceThe figure of 'autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots' resonates with the wisdom contrast between the fruitful righteous and the barren, uprooted wicked. The horticultural imagery of fruitlessness and uprooting draws on sapiential tree-metaphors.
Low confidence