Exodus 20:6

New English Translation

and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Cross References

Nehemiah 1:5

Then I said, “Please, O lord God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant with those who love him and obey his commandments,

Psalm 103:17

But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, and is faithful to their descendants,

Exodus 34:7

keeping loyal love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But he by no means leaves the guilty unpunished, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children and children’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”

Proverbs 3:1

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

Jeremiah 32:18

You show unfailing love to thousands. But you also punish children for the sins of their parents. You are the great and powerful God who is known as the Lord who rules over all.

Daniel 9:4

I prayed to the lord my God, confessing in this way: “O Lord, great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’

John 14:15

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

John 14:21

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

Acts 2:39

For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Deuteronomy 4:37

Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power

Deuteronomy 5:29

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 7:9

So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

James 1:12

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

1 John 4:19

We love because he loved us first.

1 John 5:3

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

2 John 1:6

(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.