Deuteronomy 5:10
Good News Translation
But I show my love to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my laws.

New Revised Standard Version
but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Contemporary English Version
But if you love me and obey my laws, I will be kind to your families for thousands of generations.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And shewing mercy unto many thousands, to them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

shewing mercy

Isaiah 1:16-19 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely, . . .

Jeremiah 32:18 Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.

Daniel 9:4 And I prayed to the Lord, my God, and I made my confession, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keepest the covenant, and mercy to them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.

Matthew 7:21-27 Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

love me

Deuteronomy 6:5,6 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:12,13 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: . . .

John 14:15,21-23 If you love me, keep my commandments. . . .

John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

Romans 8:28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.

James 1:25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

1 John 5:2,3 In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep his commandments. . . .

Context
The Ten Commandments
9Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me, 10And shewing mercy unto many thousands, to them that love me, and keep my commandments.11Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing.…
Cross References
Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Exodus 34:7
Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.

Numbers 14:18
The Lord is patient and full of mercy, by taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Deuteronomy 7:9
And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:

Joshua 22:5
Yet so that you observe attentively, and in work fulfil the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you: that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and keep all his commandments, and cleave to him, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul.

Psalm 103:17
But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children,

Jeremiah 32:18
Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.

Deuteronomy 5:9
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