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Proverbs 23:31

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

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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.

Eph 5:18-21

'Do not look at wine when it is red... in the end it bites like a serpent' grounds the prohibition 'Do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation (asotia).' Coherence with the wisdom warning against drunkenness is strong; medium volume.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Rom 14:13-23 ?

'It is good not to eat meat, drink wine...' (14:21) — the renunciation of wine for the sake of another — has a faint sapiential backdrop in wisdom warnings about wine (Proverbs 23:31, 'do not look at wine when it is red'). Here, however, abstinence is for the brother's sake, not self-discipline; the link is thematic and weak.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Proverbs 23
Proverbs 23:4-5 3Proverbs 23:20-21 2