He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
⛓ Read Proverbs 28 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy' is the closest OT parallel to the promise that confession brings forgiveness. 1 John echoes the proverb's logic of confession leading to mercy.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Believers come confessing and declaring their deeds; whoever confesses and forsakes his sins obtains mercy. The open confession-and-renunciation pattern coheres. Faint, contested.
Low confidence