He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.
⛓ Read Proverbs 22 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.
The counsel to 'walk in wisdom toward outsiders' with speech that is gracious and apt to answer each one reflects the wisdom tradition's prizing of gracious, well-timed speech: 'he who loves purity of heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king as his friend.' Sapiential coherence is strong as a milieu, but no single proverb is quoted; faint and contested.
Low confidencePaul's virtue catalogue (true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, of good report) draws on the sapiential ideal of the pure heart and gracious speech that wins favor. Recurrence of these virtue terms in Proverbs and the wider Hellenistic-Jewish moral tradition supplies availability, but the volume of any one verse is low.
Low confidence