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Proverbs 6:23

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

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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 8:16-18 ?

'The commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light' offers the lamp-as-word imagery for the lit lamp set on a stand, coherent with the surrounding word-of-God context. Low Volume, contested.

Low confidence
Matt 6:22-23 ?

'The commandment is a lamp... the way of life' — light/lamp as moral illumination, the metaphor field Jesus uses for the eye as the body's lamp.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Proverbs 6
Proverbs 6:6-11 4Proverbs 6:34-35 2