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Zephaniah 3:13

The New Testament’s use of Zephaniah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

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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.

Rev 14:1–5

'The remnant of Israel will not... speak lies; a deceitful tongue will not be found in their mouth' — directly behind 'in their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.' Verbal coherence.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

John 1:43-51

The remnant of Israel 'shall do no injustice and speak no lies; nor shall a deceitful tongue be found' supplies the no-deceit ideal of the true Israelite applied to Nathanael (v.47). Coheres with the genuine-Israel motif; medium.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Zephaniah 3
Zephaniah 3:3 3Zephaniah 3:9 4Zephaniah 3:14-15 2