Deuteronomy 5:10

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9You 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;

11You 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 as a sinner by the Lord.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 6:5And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

Deuteronomy 7:12And 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.

Isaiah 1:16Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Daniel 9:4And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders;

John 14:15If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

John 15:14You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:7-23

6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them… Read the whole commentary →

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