To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Parallel translations
- WEB to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
- BSB to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.
- 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 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;
- Ps 25:10All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
- Ps 132:12If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.
- Exod 24:8And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
- Matt 28:20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
- Prov 3:1My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
- Deut 6:6–9And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
- Ps 119:9–11Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
- Exod 19:5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
- Acts 24:16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
- 2 Chr 34:31And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
- Heb 8:6–13But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
- Gen 17:9–10And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
- Deut 4:23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
- 1 Th 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
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