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Proverbs 26:27

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

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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.

Luke 6:39-42 ?

'Whoever digs a pit will fall into it' supplies the pit-falling imagery of v.39. Faint proverbial echo, low confidence given how common the motif is.

Low confidence
Matt 15:10-20 ?

'Whoever digs a pit will fall into it' — wisdom topos of falling into the pit echoed in 'both will fall into a pit' (Mt 15:14).

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Proverbs 26
Proverbs 26:11 2