He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
⛓ Read Proverbs 19 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.
Allusion5
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.' The exhortation that the rich 'be rich in good works, ready to distribute,' 'laying up in store... a good foundation against the time to come' echoes the wisdom principle that generosity to the needy is treasure stored with God. Grounds the storing-up imagery of v.19.
Medium confidence'Make friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that they may receive you into the eternal tents' coheres tightly with the proverb that lending to the poor lends to the LORD, who repays. The shared logic that present generosity with money secures future, divine reception gives strong coherence with a widely available sapiential maxim.
Medium confidence'He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him' underwrites Jesus' logic that giving to the poor yields 'treasure in heaven.' The proverb's transaction of almsgiving credited with God grounds the heavenly-treasure promise. Coherence with the divestment command is strong.
Medium confidence'Give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven' enacts 'He that hath pity on the poor lendeth unto the LORD'; almsgiving as deposit with God.
Medium confidence'Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.' This is the precise theology of v.40 — kindness to the least is rendered to the King himself, who repays. The identification of the needy with the divine creditor is the conceptual hinge.
Medium confidenceEcho8
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Remember the poor' resonates with the wisdom maxim that one who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD. Recurrence within Proverbs (14:21, 14:31, 28:27) strengthens the theme, though the verbal link is thematic rather than lexical.
Medium confidence'Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay' captures the give-and-it-will-be-given reciprocity of v.38. Coherent with the surrounding generosity teaching; moderate Volume.
Medium confidence'Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed' is the wisdom axiom behind being repaid not by guests but at the resurrection. Strong thematic coherence with the repay-by-God logic of vv.13-14.
Medium confidence'Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him' — the logic of God himself repaying the secret almsgiver (v.4) closely matches this proverb's reward-from-God motif.
Medium confidence‘God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love… you served the saints’ (v. 10) sounds the wisdom axiom that mercy to the needy is a loan God repays. Low verbal volume and contested, but the theme — God's unfailing reward of ministry to others — coheres, and the formula reappears in the ‘rewarder’ of 11:6.
Low confidence'Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.' Background to James's mercy-rewarded-at-judgment principle. Faint wisdom echo within the mercy cluster.
Low confidenceThe measure-for-measure principle that 'with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you' (4:24) draws on the wisdom logic of reciprocal recompense found in Proverbs' teaching that what one gives the LORD repays. The retributive-measure motif is coherent though proverbial and not specifically cited.
Low confidenceKindness to the poor 'lends to the LORD' who repays — the mechanism by which earthly generosity becomes heavenly treasure.
Low confidence