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Proverbs 24:17

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

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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.

Echo2

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

1 Cor 13:6

'Do not rejoice when your enemy falls' parallels love that 'doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness.' The wisdom prohibition of malicious joy at another's wrong/downfall is a close conceptual match for Paul's chairei... ou epi te adikia, supporting the contrast with rejoicing in the truth.

Medium confidence
Matt 5:43-48 ?

'Do not rejoice when your enemy falls' — renunciation of enmity coherent with loving enemies.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Proverbs 24
Proverbs 24:12 6Proverbs 24:21 5Proverbs 24:29 5