Exodus 20:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Deut 7:9 : 9 Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;
  • Jer 32:39-40 : 39 And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them: 40 And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.
  • Acts 2:39 : 39 For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.
  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
  • Deut 4:37 : 37 And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;
  • Deut 5:29 : 29 If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!
  • John 14:21 : 21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
  • John 14:15 : 15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
  • Rom 11:28-29 : 28 As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers. 29 Because God's selection and his mercies may not be changed.
  • 2 John 1:6 : 6 And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

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    9 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

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  • Exod 34:6-7
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    6 And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

    7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

  • Jer 32:18
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    18 You have mercy on thousands, and send punishment for the evil-doing of the fathers on their children after them: the great, the strong God, the Lord of armies is his name:

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    5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

  • Num 14:18-19
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    18 The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.

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  • Exod 20:7-8
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    7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

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    17 But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;

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    31 So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.

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    1 So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

  • Deut 7:11-12
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    11 So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.

    12 And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.

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    8 The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

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    12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 6:17
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    17 Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

  • Deut 5:29
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    29 If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!

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    8 The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy.

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    13 Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?

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    5 And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

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    19 I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:

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    7 I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.

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    19 And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.

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    15 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

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    2 Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.

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    8 And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.

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    21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

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    3 You are to have no other gods but me.

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    6 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

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    2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

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