Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
⛓ Read Psalm 34 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 delivered me out of them all' closely echoes the psalm's 'Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.' The verbal correspondence of the righteous sufferer rescued from all troubles is strong.
High confidenceEcho5
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The hardship catalog of the suffering-yet-delivered righteous one ('many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all') stands behind Paul's peristasis. Coherence is strong with the righteous-sufferer topos; recurrence high in Paul, though volume is diffuse rather than a marked citation.
Medium confidence'Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all' frames Paul's catalog of sufferings as the lot of the righteous sufferer whom God preserves. The peristasis list reads as an enactment of this psalmic maxim, coherent with Paul's boast 'in weakness.' Volume is thematic.
Medium confidence'through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God' (v22) restates the wisdom that 'many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.' Volume moderate (the phrase 'many afflictions'); Thematic Coherence strong (suffering as the path of the faithful toward deliverance).
Medium confidencePaul insists believers "are appointed" to affliction, having foretold that "we are to suffer." The Psalter's axiom that "many are the afflictions of the righteous" supplies the scriptural conviction that suffering is the appointed lot of the faithful rather than a sign of abandonment.
Low confidence'Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all' fits Paul's stoning and immediate rising (vv19-20), anticipating the explicit 'many afflictions' of v22. Volume faint; contested as a deliberate echo here rather than a general providence motif.
Low confidence