Deuteronomy 5:10

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.”

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BSBPD

“but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and doing kindness to thousands, to those loving Me, and to those keeping My commands.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 5:10 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 4:40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  2. Deuteronomy 6:5And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
  3. Deuteronomy 7:9Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
  4. Deuteronomy 7:12If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.
  5. Deuteronomy 10:12And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  6. Isaiah 1:16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
  7. Jeremiah 32:18You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
  8. Daniel 9:4And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
  9. Matthew 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
  10. John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
  11. John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
  12. John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.
  13. Romans 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
  14. Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
  15. James 1:25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
  16. 1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
  17. 1 John 5:2By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

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