“Be strong and courageous,(A) for you will distribute the land I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance.(B) Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction My servant Moses commanded you.(C) Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go. This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth;(D) you are to recite[a] it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.(E) Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous?(F) Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 1:8 Or meditate on

10 Realize now that the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”(A)

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20 Then David said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and courageous,(A) and do the work. Don’t be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He won’t leave you or forsake you(B) until all the work for the service of the Lord’s house is finished.

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