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

It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.

Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Only the Lord had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;

Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

The Lord didn’t set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

Know therefore that the Lord your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”