Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
⛓ Read Proverbs 17 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.
'Whoever returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house' lies behind 3:9 'not rendering evil for evil.' The non-retaliation ethic of repaying evil with blessing draws on the wisdom prohibition of returning evil.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house' shares the evil-for-good/evil-for-evil idiom that Paul negates in 5:15. Faint and contested against the stronger Prov 20:22 and Lev 19:18.
Low confidence