The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
⛓ Read Psalm 24 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'The earth is the LORD's, and its fullness' is quoted verbatim (v.26) and repeated at v.28 as the warrant that all food is clean for the believer. Highest volume; the creation-belongs-to-God claim is Paul's decisive ground for eating market meat.
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The earth is the LORD's and its fullness.' Jesus' logic that the king's own children are free, and the provision of the coin from the sea/fish, plays on God's ownership of all things — the Son not being a stranger in his Father's house (the temple). Thematic.
Low confidence'The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof' — undergirds the claim that what is God's (everything, including the bearer of his image) belongs to God (22:21).
Low confidence'We are the Lord's' (tou kyriou esmen, 14:8) echoes the creational ownership confessed in Psalm 24:1 ('The earth is the LORD's and its fullness'), which Paul cites elsewhere at 1 Corinthians 10:26 in a closely parallel food-and-conscience argument. The lordship grounding here is conceptually linked though not quoted.
Low confidence