Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
⛓ Read Psalm 1 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.
'Blessed is the man...' — the makarism/beatitude form itself is rooted in the Psalter's wisdom blessing formula.
Medium confidenceEcho6
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Not to associate... not even eat with such a person' faintly recalls the blessed man who walks 'not in the counsel of the ungodly' — separation from the wicked as the mark of the righteous community. Faint and contested; offered for the broad wisdom motif of avoiding fellowship with sinners.
Low confidence'Blessed are you if you do them' adopts the OT beatitude form that ties blessing to doing the will/law. The macarism cadence is biblical but generic, so the link is to a form rather than a text.
Low confidencePeter stands and warms himself among the servants and officers ranged against Jesus, faintly inverting the blessed man who does not 'stand in the way of sinners.' Faint and contested; the standing-among-the-wicked motif is suggestive of the first psalm's contrast but lacks verbal anchor.
Low confidenceThe wisdom ideal that the righteous do not sit with sinners frames the Pharisees' assumption that eating with sinners defiles. Luke inverts the maxim: Jesus' table redefines blessedness as seeking rather than separating. Faint and contested, resting on shared sinner/righteous vocabulary.
Low confidenceThe exhortation to 'stand firm in the Lord' draws on the OT contrast between the stable righteous, planted and unmoved, and the chaff-like wicked. Coherence with the steadfastness motif (Psalm 1:3; 112:6) is real, but the volume is faint and 'stand firm' is too diffuse to anchor a single source, so this is a contested echo.
Low confidenceThe macarism form ('Blessed is...') of the Psalter underlies the beatitude pronounced on the faithful dead. Form-critical rather than verbal.
Low confidence