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Psalm 119:142

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

John 17:17-19

'Your word is truth' (v17) closely renders 'your law is truth' (Ps 119:142) and 'the sum of your word is truth' (119:160). Near-verbal correspondence gives high Volume; the equation of God's word with truth is the precise scriptural ground for the petition.

High confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Rom 7:7-12 ?

'Your law is truth' and the psalm's sustained praise of the commandments as righteous and good lie behind Paul's vindication of the commandment as 'holy and righteous and good' (7:12).

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 119
Psalm 119:18 2Psalm 119:32 2Psalm 119:46 5Psalm 119:89 2Psalm 119:105 3Psalm 119:137 2Psalm 119:160 3Psalm 119:176 3