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Proverbs 17:13

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

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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 Pet 3:8-12

'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 confidence

Echo1

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

1 Thess 5:12-15 ?

'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
Elsewhere in Proverbs 17
Proverbs 17:3 5Proverbs 17:9 2