He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
⛓ 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.
The righteous as a tree yielding its fruit in season vs. the wicked as chaff — the good-tree/good-fruit and judgment imagery of Ps 1 underlies 7:17-19.
Medium confidenceEcho5
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The righteous as a tree planted by water 'that yields its fruit in its season' and does not wither frames the abiding/fruit-bearing/withering antithesis of 15:2-6. Coherence with the abide-and-bear-fruit motif; tree rather than vine, so a softer echo.
Medium confidenceThe prayer that Gaius 'may prosper in all things' as his soul prospers loosely recalls the wisdom promise that the righteous one 'in whatever he does, he prospers.' The link is thematic rather than verbal and the everyday health-wish formula carries most of the freight.
Low confidenceBeing 'rooted and built up' and 'established' draws on the planted-tree imagery of the righteous in Psalm 1 (and Jeremiah 17:8), a stock figure for stability through walking rightly. Coherence with 'walk in him' supports a faint echo.
Low confidencePsalm 1:3's 'tree planted by streams of water' that flourishes is the classic OT picture of the rooted, stable righteous person and reinforces 'rooted and grounded in love.' It is best paired with Jeremiah 17:8 as part of the same planted-tree image cluster rather than an independent source.
Low confidenceThe fruit-bearing-tree-versus-judgment contrast inverts Psalm 1's tree that yields fruit in season; John warns that fruitlessness ends in fire. Thematic and faint; the Volume is low and the link is contested.
Low confidence