Exodus 20:6

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Nehemiah 1:5

I prayed: “Lord, God of heaven, great and awesome God, you preserve your covenant of mercy with those who love you and keep your commandments.

Psalm 103:17

But the Lord’s mercy is from age to age, toward those who fear him. His salvation is for the children’s children

Exodus 34:7

continuing his love for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on children and children’s children to the third and fourth generation!

Proverbs 3:1

My son, do not forget my teaching, take to heart my commands;

Jeremiah 32:18

You continue your kindness through a thousand generations; but you repay the ancestors’ guilt upon their children who follow them. Great and mighty God, whose name is Lord of hosts,

Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the Lord, my God, and confessed, “Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, you who keep your covenant and show mercy toward those who love you and keep your commandments and your precepts!

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in kindness, forgiving iniquity and rebellion; yet certainly not declaring the guilty guiltless, but punishing children to the third and fourth generation for their parents’ iniquity.’

John 14:15

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

John 14:21

Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

Acts 2:39

For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call.”

Deuteronomy 4:37

For love of your ancestors he chose their descendants after them and by his presence and great power led you out of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 5:29

Would that they might always be of such a mind, to fear me and to keep all my commandments! Then they and their descendants would prosper forever.

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know, then, that the Lord, your God, is God: the faithful God who keeps covenant mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and keep his commandments,

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who perseveres in temptation, for when he has been proved he will receive the crown of life that he 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 keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

2 John 1:6

For this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, in which you should walk.