The source
Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
⛓ Read Psalm 51 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Eph 2:1-3 ?
'By nature children of wrath' resonates with the Psalmist's confession of being conceived in sin, supplying OT warrant for an innate sinful condition. The coherence is thematic (inborn guilt) rather than verbal.
Low confidenceRom 7:13-25 ?
'I am fleshly, sold under sin' (7:14) echoes the penitential confession of being conceived in iniquity—a self caught in sin from the inside, unable to free itself.
Low confidenceElsewhere in Psalm 51