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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 10:35 → Deuteronomy 10:12

Allusion

Later text

Acts 10:35BSB

but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 10:12BSB

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Psalms 15:2BSB

He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,

Significance

"[God] welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right" (Acts 10:35). Peter sums up acceptable devotion in the very terms Moses set before Israel: "what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart" (Deuteronomy 10:12; cf. Psalms 15:2). The fear of God and the doing of righteousness are, by analogy, the marks of the true worshiper in every age. Peter's point is not that Gentiles are saved by sincerity apart from Christ — the very next verses press the gospel of peace through Jesus and forgiveness of sins through His name (Acts 10:36, 43) — but that God-fearing reverence is no monopoly of Israel, and wherever it is genuine God is drawing that person to His Son. The old covenant's summons to fear and obey is honored, not annulled, as the gospel goes to the nations.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy