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Psalm 118:6

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

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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.

Quotation1

A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.

Heb 13:1–6

The worshiper's confidence from the Hallel psalm, made the believer's answer to fear — paired at once with the Deuteronomy promise, two texts braided into one assurance.

High confidence

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rom 8:31-39

'The LORD is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?' supplies the rhetorical shape of 'If God is for us, who can be against us?' (v.31); the same God-for-me-therefore-fearless logic.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 118
Psalm 118:1 2Psalm 118:22-23 3Psalm 118:22 9Psalm 118:25-26 3Psalm 118:26 3