Exodus 20:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But showing mercy and steadfast love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Common English Bible

⁶ But I am loyal and gracious to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ and showing mercy to thousands of those who love me and keep my precepts.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And shewing mercy unto thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Exodus 20:6 Cross References

Nehemiah 1:5

I said, “O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Psalm 103:17

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,

Exodus 34:7

keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Proverbs 3:1

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Jeremiah 32:18

You show steadfast love to the thousandth generation but repay the guilt of parents into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts,

Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love with those who love you and keep your commandments,

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.’

John 14:15

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 14:21

They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”

Acts 2:39

For the promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.”

Deuteronomy 4:37

And because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them. He brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,

Deuteronomy 5:29

If only they had such a mind as this, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever!

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

James 1:12

Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

1 John 4:19

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 5:3

For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

2 John 1:6

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the beginning—you must walk in it.