Exodus 20:6 “but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who lov…”

Exodus 20:6

but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And shewing mercie vnto thousandes to them that loue me, and keepe my commandemets.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

Bible in Basic English

And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.

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Cross references

“shewing”

Deuteronomy 7:9 Deuteronomy 5:29 Acts 2:39 Deuteronomy 4:37 Jeremiah 32:39 Jeremiah 32:40

Deuteronomy 7:9 · BSB

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:29 · BSB

If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.

Acts 2:39 · BSB

This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

Deuteronomy 4:37 · BSB

Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

Jeremiah 32:39 · BSB

I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

Jeremiah 32:40 · BSB

I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

“love me”

John 14:21 1 John 5:3 John 14:15 1 John 4:19 2 John 1:6

John 14:21 · BSB

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

1 John 5:3 · BSB

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

John 14:15 · BSB

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

1 John 4:19 · BSB

We love because He first loved us.

2 John 1:6 · BSB

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

7You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

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