He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
⛓ 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends' parallels love that 'takes no account of evil' and 'bears all things.' The wisdom ideal of not rehearsing wrongs is a close conceptual match for Paul's non-reckoning love, reinforcing the Prov 10:12 covering-motif.
Medium confidence"He who covers a transgression seeks love" offers a near-parallel proverb to 4:8, reinforcing the love-covers-sin tradition; possible secondary source alongside Proverbs 10:12.
Low confidence