Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
⛓ Read Psalm 143 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.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'No flesh will be justified by the works of the law' (v.16) reworks the psalm's plea, 'do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.' The shared 'no one living / no flesh... righteous/justified before God' is verbally close to the LXX and used by Paul as a scriptural axiom (cf. Romans 3:20).
High confidence3:20: 'by works of the law no flesh will be justified in his sight' adapts LXX Psalm 142:2, 'do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no living one shall be justified.' Paul adds 'by works of the law' but the 'no flesh justified before you' core is verbatim from the psalmist.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'No one living is righteous before you' grounds the impossibility of sinlessness before God. The verse supports 1 John's insistence that to deny sin is to lack the truth.
Medium confidencePs 143:2 ('no one living is righteous before you'), which Paul cites at Gal 2:16 and Rom 3:20, stands behind the 'all under sin' verdict of v.22. The echo continues the justification argument from the previous chapter. Faint; offered as an alternative scriptural ground.
Low confidence