Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
⛓ Read Psalm 19 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.
The 'holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation' echoes 'the law of the LORD is perfect... making wise the simple.' The conviction that God's word imparts saving wisdom is rooted in this psalm's praise of Torah.
High confidence'The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.' James's 'perfect law of freedom' that blesses the doer draws on the Psalter's praise of the perfect, soul-restoring Torah.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The law is good' recalls the Psalter's celebration of the LORD's law as perfect, reviving the soul. Paul presumes this OT confession of the law's intrinsic goodness even as he restricts its application. A thematic echo of Torah-piety.
Medium confidence