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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 3:20 → Psalm 143:2

Quotation

Later text

Romans 3:20BSB

Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Earlier text

Psalm 143:2BSB

Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:03

Significance

Paul adapts the Psalmist's plea for mercy to demonstrate that justification cannot come through law observance. He adds "by works of the law" to make explicit what is implicit in the psalm.

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