I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
⛓ Read Psalm 116 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.
'Every man a liar' (3:4) is the psalmist's verbatim verdict, 'all men are liars' (LXX Psalm 115:2). Paul fuses it with the Psalm 51 citation to dramatize the truth-of-God / lie-of-humanity antithesis.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'He is a liar' echoes the psalmist's 'all men are liars,' supplying the biblical category of the lie as a failure of covenant truthfulness. The brother-hater who claims love of God is exposed as a liar in the Johannine sense of one who does not do the truth.
Low confidence