to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.
Parallel translations
- WEB to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
- KJV To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
- NKJV To such as keep His covenant, And to those who remember His commandments to do them.
- NASB To those who keep His covenant And remember His precepts, so as to do them.
- NLT of those who are faithful to his covenant, of those who obey his commandments!
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Quick answer
God's everlasting love rests on those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts. True faith expresses itself in covenant faithfulness.
Overview
The promise of enduring mercy is joined to a call to keep covenant and obey God's commands. This is not earning grace but the response of those who truly fear Him. Believers obey not to gain God's love but because, united to Christ, they are enabled and moved to walk in His ways.
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- Deut 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.
- Ps 25:10All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
- Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
- Ps 132:12If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”
- Exod 24:8So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
- Matt 28:20and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Prov 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
- Deut 6:6–9These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
- Ps 119:9–11How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
- Exod 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
- Acts 24:16In this hope, I strive always to maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
- 2 Chr 34:31So the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD and to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book.
- Heb 8:6–13Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
- Gen 17:9–10God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.
- Deut 4:23Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
- 1 Th 4:1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
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