To such as keep His covenant, And to those who remember His commandments to do them.
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.
- BSB to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.
- 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 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,
- Ps 25:10All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- Ps 132:12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
- Exod 24:8Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- Prov 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
- Deut 6:6–9These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
- Ps 119:9–11How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
- Exod 19:5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
- Acts 24:16Herein I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.
- 2 Chr 34:31The king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, 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 that were written in this book.
- Heb 8:6–13But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.
- Gen 17:9–10God said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.
- Deut 4:23Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
- 1 Th 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
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