Know 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.
Parallel translations
- WEB Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
- KJV Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
- NKJV “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
- NASB Know therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His faithfulness to a thousand generations for those who love Him and keep His commandments;
- NLT Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who keeps his covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes his unfailing love on those who love him and obey his commands.
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Quick answer
The LORD is the faithful God who keeps covenant love to a thousand generations of those who love and obey him. His faithfulness is sure and enduring.
Overview
Moses calls Israel to know God as utterly trustworthy, keeping steadfast love across generations. This faithfulness undergirds the covenant and invites wholehearted devotion. God's unwavering fidelity finds its fullest expression in the new covenant sealed by the blood of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Heb 10:23Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
- 2 Tim 2:13if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.
- 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
- Dan 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,
- 1 Cor 1:9God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
- Neh 1:5Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
- 1 Th 5:24The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
- Rom 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.
- Deut 5:10but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Exod 20:6but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Isa 49:7Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”
- 2 Cor 1:18But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
- 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Gen 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
- Heb 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
- Ps 119:75I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
- Heb 11:11By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised.
- Deut 4:35You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.
- Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- 1 Chr 16:15Remember His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—
- Exod 34:6–7Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
- 1 Cor 8:3But the one who loves God is known by God.
- 1 Cor 10:3They all ate the same spiritual food
- Lam 3:23They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
- Ps 146:6the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.
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