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Proverbs 13:24

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

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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.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

1 Cor 4:14-21

'He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently' undergirds Paul's father-to-children stance closing with the choice 'Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love?' (vv.14-21). The paternal-discipline rod is drawn from Proverbs' instruction tradition and coheres with Paul calling them his beloved children.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Eph 6:1-4 ?

The instruction not to 'provoke children to wrath' but to nurture them tempers the wisdom theme of disciplined child-rearing found in Proverbs. The connection is conceptual coherence within the household-instruction tradition, hence a faint, contested echo.

Low confidence