These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 6 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The command to teach God's words diligently to children from earliest years grounds Timothy's knowing the sacred writings 'from infancy.' The household catechesis of Scripture reflects the Shema's instruction.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"The word of God remains in you" recalls the Shema's charge that these words be on the heart and taught diligently. The indwelling word as a mark of strength parallels Deuteronomy's internalized commandment.
Low confidence"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly... teaching and admonishing" coheres with the Shema's command to let God's words remain in the heart and to teach them diligently. Faint; the indwelling-and-teaching-the-word motif is suggestive but generic to Deuteronomic catechesis.
Low confidence