The source
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
⛓ Read Proverbs 8 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.
Luke 11:9-13
"Those who seek me diligently will find me" supplies the seek-and-find logic of "keep seeking and you will find." Wisdom's promise of reward to the seeker is the most available source for the ask-seek-knock triad.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Matt 7:7-11
Wisdom: 'those who seek me diligently find me' — the wisdom-tradition seek/find topos applied to prayer.
Medium confidenceElsewhere in Proverbs 8