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Cross-Testament Parallels

  • 1 Tim 6:16 → 1 Tim 1:17 (nt, vocabulary + structural — both are Pauline doxologies attributing immortality/incorruptibility exclusively to God)
  • 1 Tim 6:16 → 1 Cor 15:50 (nt, vocabulary — immortality/incorruption vocabulary; God's exclusive possession vs. believers' future acquisition)
  • 1 Tim 6:16 → Rom 2:7 (nt, vocabulary — immortality (athanasia in 1 Tim, aphtharsia in Rom); God possesses it, humans seek it)
  • 1 Cor 15:53 → 1 Cor 15:54 (nt, direct continuation — v.53 states necessity, v.54 states fulfillment with OT quotation)
  • 1 Cor 15:53 → 1 Cor 15:42 (nt, structural — same resurrection argument; corruptible/incorruptible contrast)
  • 1 Cor 15:53 → 2 Cor 4:11 (nt, vocabulary — thnetos (mortal) in both; present mortality vs. future transformation)
  • 1 Cor 15:54 → Isa 25:8 (ot, direct quotation — death swallowed up in victory)
  • John 3:16 → Gen 3:22 (ot, thematic — life as conditional; Gen 3:22 bars access to tree of life, John 3:16 offers everlasting life through faith)
  • Rom 6:23 → Rom 5:21 (nt, structural + vocabulary — sin/death vs. grace/eternal life in Christ)
  • Rom 6:23 → Prov 10:16 (ot, thematic — wages/fruit of righteousness vs. wickedness; life vs. death contrast)
  • John 3:16 → 1 John 5:11-12 (nt, Johannine testimony — both teach life through the Son; perish vs. have life binary)
  • Job 34:14-15 → Ps 104:29-30 (ot, thematic + vocabulary — God's breath/spirit sustains life; withdrawal = death + return to dust)