The source
The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.
⛓ Read Proverbs 15 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.
Matt 18:1-5
'Before honor is humility' supplies the proverbial frame for greatness defined by lowering oneself; recurs at Prov 18:12, reinforcing thematic coherence.
Medium confidenceMark 9:33-37 ?
'Before honor is humility' provides a wisdom backdrop to the last-shall-be-first saying and the embrace of the child. The contact is general and pattern-based. It reinforces the OT roots of Jesus' status reversal.
Low confidenceElsewhere in Proverbs 15