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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

Romans 3:14 → Psalm 10:7

Quotation

Later text

Romans 3:14BSB

“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

Earlier text

Psalm 10:7BSB

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square8:14

Significance

Part of Paul's catena of OT quotations in Romans 3:10-18 demonstrating universal human sinfulness. Paul quotes the LXX of Psalm 10:7 (which speaks of the wicked man whose mouth is full of curses, lies, and threats) to indict all humanity — both Jew and Gentile — as under the power of sin. The psalm's description of individual wickedness is universalized by Paul as evidence of the comprehensive scope of human guilt before God.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — Tributary element of the Romans 3:10-18 catena — Psalm 10:7 contributing the cursing-and-bitterness indictment.

See also: Romans 3:10-18 to Psalm 14:1 (full catena)