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Proverbs 8:35

The New Testament’s use of Proverbs

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

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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.

1 John 5:6-12 ?

Wisdom's promise 'whoso findeth me findeth life' parallels 'He who has the Son has the life.' Possessing the divine gift is possessing life itself. A sapiential echo for life located in a person to be found.

Low confidence
John 1:1-5 ?

'Whoever finds me finds life' links personified Wisdom directly to life, supporting the life-in-the-Word claim of v.4. Faint and contested, but coherent with the broader Wisdom substrate already established.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Proverbs 8
Proverbs 8:17 2Proverbs 8:22-31 9Proverbs 8:22 2Proverbs 8:32-35 2