Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
⛓ Read Psalm 69 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.
Allusion5
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not enrolled among the righteous' provides the precise phrase 'book of life/living' that Paul reverses into a positive assurance. High volume on the shared lexeme, strong recurrence of the register motif across the Psalter and prophets, and thematic coherence with the contrast of the saved versus the lost.
High confidenceThe only OT verse with the exact phrase 'book of life' (LXX Ps 68:29 βίβλος ζώντων). Closest verbal source for Rev 3:5; high volume + thematic fit (registry of the righteous). Note LXX 'book of the living' vs MT 'book of life.'
High confidence'The book of life' echoes 'let them be blotted out of the book of the living (biblou zonton), and not be written with the righteous' (Ps 69:28 [LXX 68:29]). Closest verbal match for 'book of life' phrase.
High confidence'Let them be blotted out of the book of the living (LXX biblou zōntōn)... not be written with the righteous' — the book of life from which names are absent; source for being judged by enrollment / 'not found written in the book of life.'
High confidence'Let them be blotted out of the book of the living' — the negative counterpart behind 'only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life' (v.27). Cf. Exod 32:32-33; Dan 12:1.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The book of the living, from which the wicked are blotted out and not enrolled among the righteous, supplies the negative counterpart to having one's name written in heaven. It adds recurrence to the heavenly-register tradition.
Medium confidence'Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous' — the closest phrase to names (not) written in the book of life. Hays: distinctiveness of 'book of the living.' LXX Ps 68:29.
Medium confidence