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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 3:18 → Psalm 36:1

Quotation

Later text

Romans 3:18BSB

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Earlier text

Psalm 36:1BSB

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:59

Significance

The climactic verse of Paul's catena in Romans 3:10-18. Paul quotes Psalm 36:1, which describes the wicked person who has no fear of God, as the concluding summary of universal human sinfulness. The absence of the fear of God is the root diagnosis — every preceding sin described in the catena (lying, violence, cursing) flows from this fundamental failure. By placing this quotation last, Paul identifies godlessness as the fountainhead of all human corruption.

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

Hermeneutical Notes

NT Use Pattern: Assimilated — Final tributary element of the Romans 3:10-18 catena — Psalm 36:1 sealing the indictment with "no fear of God before their eyes."

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