Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'God didn't give us a spirit of fear' answers the LORD's charge to Joshua, 'be strong and courageous; do not be afraid,' precisely as Timothy steps into a Joshua-like succession of leadership. The not-fearing-but-strong commission undergirds the whole exhortation.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Do not be frightened... for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go' — the commissioning encouragement to a leader facing a daunting task, reused for Paul.
Medium confidenceThe 'do not be afraid... for the LORD your God is with you' charge before entering the land resonates with the angel's reassurance and the disciples' coming commission; a faint commissioning-courage motif.
Low confidence