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Deuteronomy 8:5

The New Testament’s use of Deuteronomy

4 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

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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.

Allusion3

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Heb 12:5–13

‘What son is there whom his father doesn't discipline?’ (v. 7) restates the father-son discipline axiom of Deut 8:5 — the wilderness theology that hardship is paternal training, not abandonment. Strong thematic coherence (Hays) reinforcing the quoted Prov 3:11–12; the disciplining ‘father’ language is shared verbatim in sense. LXX and Hebrew agree here (‘as a man chastens his son’).

High confidence
1 Cor 11:27-34

'When we are judged, we are punished by the Lord' (v.32) draws on the covenant principle that the Lord disciplines his people 'as a man disciplines his son.' The corrective (not condemnatory) character of the chastening matches Paul's point.

Medium confidence
Titus 2:11-14

The training/disciplining work of grace (v.12) echoes 'as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.' Reinforces the paideia background alongside Proverbs 3.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 4:1-11 ?

'As a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you' — the father/son wilderness-discipline theme resonates with the repeated 'If you are the Son of God' challenge framing Jesus' wilderness testing.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Deuteronomy 8
Deuteronomy 8:2 5Deuteronomy 8:3 7Deuteronomy 8:10 3Deuteronomy 8:15 2Deuteronomy 8:17-18 2