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and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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Love is Practical Obedience
Commentator Charles Ellicott highlights that this verse defines love for God in practical terms: to love God is to keep His commandments. This concept is directly echoed by Jesus in the New Testament (John 14:15), showing a consistent biblical theme where our love for God is demonstrated through active obedience rather than just emotion.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare Exodus 20 and notes.
Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats…
19th Century
Anglican
Those who love me. —We have an echo of this commandment in the words of our Saviour: If you love me, keep my commandments…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:6).
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There is some variation here from Exodus 20, similar to the variation between the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11. It is more necessary that…
