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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

1 Timothy 6:1 → Isaiah 52:5

Allusion

Later text

1 Timothy 6:1BSB

All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as fully worthy of honor, so that God’s name and our teaching will not be discredited.

Earlier text

Isaiah 52:5BSB

And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

Significance

Paul warns that slaves should honor their masters "so that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed" (hina mē to onoma tou theou kai hē didaskalia blasphēmētai). This echoes Isaiah 52:5 (LXX), where God laments that "my name is continually blasphemed among the nations" (di' hymas dia pantos to onoma mou blasphēmeitai en tois ethnesin). The TSK confirms this connection. In Isaiah, the blasphemy results from Israel's exile — the nations mock God because his people are oppressed, suggesting he cannot protect them. Paul reverses the causality: now it is the behavior of God's people that can cause his name to be blasphemed. The verbal parallel (blasphēmeō + onoma tou theou) is unmistakable. Paul applies the prophetic concern for God's reputation among outsiders to the practical realm of Christian conduct in a pagan social order.

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