So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
⛓ Read Proverbs 3 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Verse 21, 'Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men,' closely follows LXX Proverbs 3:4, 'provide for good things in the sight of the Lord and of men.' Paul applies the maxim of seeking favor and good repute before God and humans to his transparent handling of the collection. The lexical overlap (good/honorable things; sight of Lord and men) gives high volume and coherence.
High confidence'Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men' (12:17) echoes 'find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man' (LXX Prov 3:4), the wisdom ideal of conduct visibly good before others.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'So you will find favor and good repute (LXX: good things) in the sight of God and man' parallels Paul's 'whatever is of good report' and the appeal to public commendation. Volume is low and the link conceptual, but the good-repute motif is available in the sapiential tradition.
Low confidence