Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
⛓ Read Psalm 145 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 LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and great in steadfast love' restates the Exodus formula and grounds Paul's 'love is patient and kind.' Its liturgical recurrence (Pss 86:15; 103:8; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2) gives the patient-and-kind pairing strong availability and volume as a fixed description of covenant love.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's longing 'in the tender mercies (splanchna) of Christ Jesus' draws on OT compassion language (rachamim/oiktirmoi) characteristically predicated of God. The affective vocabulary coheres with the divine-mercy tradition, but the Greek splanchna is not the usual LXX term, so the echo is faint.
Low confidence