From a woman was the beginning of sin; And because of her we all die.
⛓ Read Sirach 25 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.
"Through one... death" passed to all (5:12, 5:15): "From a woman sin had its beginning, and because of her we all die." A Second Temple text tracing universal death to the primeval transgression in Eden, structurally parallel to Paul (though Ben Sira blames Eve, Paul Adam). Strong thematic overlap on death-through-one.
Medium confidence'From a woman sin had its beginning, and because of her we all die' is the Ben Sira tradition linking the Eden transgression to death; it stands in the background of Paul's sin-came-alive-and-I-died account (7:9-11).
Low confidence