← INDEX FONTIUM

Psalm 17:15

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

⛓ Read Psalm 17 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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

1 John 3:1-3

The psalmist hopes to 'behold your face in righteousness' and be 'satisfied with your likeness' upon awaking, the classic beatific-vision text and a likeness motif. John's 'we will be like him, for we will see him' closely mirrors this seeing-and-likeness pairing. The awaking imagery resonates with eschatological revelation.

High confidence
Matt 5:1-12

'I shall behold your face in righteousness' — beatific seeing of God promised to the pure in heart.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Rev 22:1–5

'I shall behold your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake with your likeness.' Beatific-vision source for 'They will see his face.' LXX Ps 16:15.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 17
Psalm 17:8 2