Exodus 20:6
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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“but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 20:6 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 34:7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
- Deuteronomy 4:37Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
- Deuteronomy 5:29If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 32:39I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
- 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,
- John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- 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.”
- Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
- Romans 11:28Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.
- 1 John 4:19We love because He first loved us.
- 1 John 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
- 2 John 1:6And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
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