but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!
As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
We love because he first loved us.
And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
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