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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.
Deuteronomy 7:9 · New Living Translation
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;
  • BSB 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.
  • 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;

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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

Cross-references · 26

  • Heb 10:23let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
  • 2 Tim 2:13If we are faithless, he remains faithful. For he can’t deny himself.”
  • 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
  • Dan 9:4I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
  • 1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
  • Neh 1:5and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
  • 1 Th 5:24He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
  • Rom 8:28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
  • Deut 5:10and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
  • Exod 20:6and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
  • Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
  • 2 Cor 1:18But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
  • 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
  • Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
  • Heb 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
  • Ps 119:75Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
  • Heb 11:11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
  • Deut 4:35It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.
  • Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
  • 1 Chr 16:15Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
  • Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
  • 1 Cor 8:3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
  • 1 Cor 10:3and all ate the same spiritual food;
  • Lam 3:23They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
  • Ps 146:6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

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    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).

How Deuteronomy 7:9 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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