Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
⛓ Read Proverbs 4 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.' The command 'guard that which is committed to you' draws on the wisdom ideal of vigilant safekeeping of what is precious. A thematic resonance with the keeping/guarding motif.
Low confidence'Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life' anticipates Mark's image of what 'proceeds out of' the person from the heart. Wisdom availability; verbal contact ('proceeds out') is suggestive but faint.
Low confidence'Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the springs of life' — heart as the wellspring from which everything proceeds, paralleling 'out of the heart come...' (15:18-19).
Low confidence