Joshua 1:6 - Revised Standard Version

⁶ Be strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Be strong (confident) and of good courage, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

Common English Bible

⁶ Be brave and strong, because you are the one who will help this people take possession of the land, which I pledged to give to their ancestors.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Be strengthened and be steadfast. For you shall divide by lot, to this people, the land about which I swore to their fathers that I would deliver it to them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to this people the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that I would deliver it to them.

Joshua 1:6 Cross References

Genesis 12:7

Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 26:3

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfil the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

2 Samuel 10:12

Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him.”

1 Kings 2:2

“I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,

1 Chronicles 22:13

Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong, and of good courage. Fear not; be not dismayed.

1 Chronicles 28:10

Take heed now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it.”

1 Chronicles 28:20

Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and of good courage, and do it. Fear not, be not dismayed; for the Lord God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished.

2 Chronicles 15:7

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

2 Chronicles 20:11

behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

2 Chronicles 20:7

Didst thou not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it for ever to the descendants of Abraham thy friend?

Psalm 27:14

Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; yea, wait for the Lord!

Daniel 10:19

And he said, “O man greatly beloved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And when he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”

Haggai 2:4

Yet now take courage, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; take courage, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; take courage, all you people of the land, says the Lord; work, for I am with you, says the Lord of hosts,

Zechariah 8:9

Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets, since the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

Numbers 26:53

“To these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names.

Numbers 33:53

and you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong.

Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Deuteronomy 1:21

Behold, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you; do not fear or be dismayed.’

Deuteronomy 1:8

Behold, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.’

Deuteronomy 11:8

“You shall therefore keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land which you are going over to possess,

Deuteronomy 31:23

And the Lord commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, “Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to give them: I will be with you.”

2 Timothy 2:1

You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus,

Joshua 1:18

Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage.”

Joshua 1:7

Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Joshua 1:9

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 10:25

And Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and of good courage; for thus the Lord will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

Joshua 13:6

all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I will myself drive them out from before the people of Israel; only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

Joshua 18:3

So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you be slack to go in and take possession of the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Joshua 21:43

Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and having taken possession of it, they settled there.

Joshua 5:6

For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, perished, because they did not hearken to the voice of the Lord; to them the Lord swore that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

1 Samuel 4:9

Take courage, and acquit yourselves like men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; acquit yourselves like men and fight.”