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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 John 3:24 → Ezekiel 36:27

Allusion

Later text

1 John 3:24BSB

Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.

Earlier text

Ezekiel 36:27BSB

And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.||

Significance

John's assurance — "by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us" — echoes Ezekiel's New Covenant prophecy: "I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes." Ezekiel's promise that God would place His Spirit within (בְּקִרְבְּכֶם) His people is fulfilled in John's declaration that the Spirit has been given (δέδωκεν) to believers. The indwelling Spirit is the proof of mutual abiding — God in the believer and the believer in God — which is precisely what Ezekiel promised.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

▸ A New Heart and Dry Bones

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Anchor Texts 1

Ezekiel 36-37 — A New Heart and Dry Bones

1 John 3:24 → Ezekiel 36:27

Significance

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