“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may […]
⛓ Read Joshua 1 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The repeated divine charge 'be strong and courageous' to Joshua is the canonical fountainhead of the formula Paul echoes. The LXX renders it with the same andrizou/ischye verbs Paul uses, giving high volume and strong recurrence across the courage-tradition.
High confidenceThe night vision in which the Lord stands by Paul and says 'Take courage' (be of good cheer) follows the OT pattern of God commissioning a servant for a daunting journey with the charge to be strong/unafraid, classically Josh 1:6-9 at the threshold of a new mission. Medium Thematic Coherence (divine reassurance + mandate to 'go'); Volume moderate via the 'fear not / be strong' formula.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The opening exhortation 'be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might' (6:10) echoes the repeated divine charge to Joshua 'be strong and courageous' (ischye kai andrizou) as he takes the land. The martial 'stand firm' framing of the whole passage coheres with the conquest setting, though the wording is a stock LXX encouragement formula.
Medium confidence