Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
⛓ Read Psalm 86 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 letter's keynote, Gaius and the elder's children 'walking in truth,' draws on the Psalter's idiom for fidelity to God's revealed way: 'teach me your way, O LORD; I will walk in your truth.' The same construction of walking in/according to truth recurs as the praise the elder repeats four times.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"Walking in truth" renders an OT idiom for fidelity to God; the psalmist asks to be taught the LORD's way so as to walk in his truth. The behavioral sense of "truth" as covenant loyalty, not mere doctrine, is the OT background.
Medium confidence'Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth' again binds 'way' and 'truth' as the route to communion with God, paralleling 14:6's claim that the way and truth lead to the Father. Recurrence of this way/truth collocation across the Psalter raises Volume; the contestation is that John offers no formula-citation, only the absorbed idiom.
Medium confidence