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Cross-Testament Parallels

  • Matt 10:28 → Luke 12:4-5 (nt, synoptic parallel — same logion, different verb choices)
  • Matt 10:28 → Matt 5:29-30 (nt, vocabulary — same author, apollymi + gehenna + soma)
  • Matt 10:28 → James 4:12 (nt, vocabulary — sozo/apollymi antonym pair applied to God)
  • Matt 10:28 → Jer 7:31-32 (ot, gehenna OT background — Valley of Slaughter/corpse disposal)
  • Matt 10:28 → Isa 66:24 (ot, gehenna background — worm/fire acting on corpses (peger))
  • Matt 10:28 → Ezek 18:4 (ot, nephesh mortality — 'the soul that sinneth shall die')
  • Matt 10:28 → Gen 2:7 (ot, creation anthropology — man BECAME a living nephesh)
  • Matt 10:28 → Mal 4:1-3 (ot, eschatological fire — wicked become ashes/stubble)
  • Matt 10:28 → Rev 20:9-10 (nt, vocabulary differentiation — devoured (humans) vs. tormented (devil))
  • Matt 10:28 → 1 Tim 6:16 (nt, anthropological prerequisite — God alone has immortality)
  • Matt 10:28 → John 3:16 (nt, apollymi/zoe antithesis — perish vs. everlasting life)
  • Matt 10:39 → Matt 16:25 (nt, same word-pair psyche+apollymi — same author, same paradox)
  • Ezek 18:4 → Ezek 18:20 (ot, repeated formula — nephesh + muwth)