but showing favor to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Parallel translations
- WEB and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
- KJV And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
- BSB but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- NKJV but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- NLT But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
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Quick answer
God shows steadfast love to thousands of those who love Him and keep His commandments. His mercy far outweighs His judgment.
Overview
In contrast to the limited reach of judgment, God's covenant love extends to thousands of generations, revealing a God abounding in mercy. Love for God and obedience belong together. This faithful love finds its fullest expression in Christ, through whom God lavishes everlasting kindness on His people.
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- Deut 7:9Know 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,
- John 14:21One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
- 1 Jn 5:3For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
- Jer 32:39–40and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
- Deut 5:29Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
- Acts 2:39For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
- Rom 11:28–29Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
- John 14:15If you love me, keep my commandments.
- Deut 4:37Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
- 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
- 2 Jn 1:6This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
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