The source
He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.
⛓ Read Proverbs 14 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.
Jas 2:1-7 ?
'Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.' James rebukes those who 'dishonored the poor man' (v.6). Faint wisdom-tradition echo of honoring rather than shaming the poor.
Low confidenceMatt 5:1-12 ?
'Blessed is he who is generous/merciful to the poor'; wisdom background for 'blessed are the merciful.'
Low confidenceElsewhere in Proverbs 14