But because the Lord [a]loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, the Lord hath brought you out by a mighty hand, and delivered you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh King of Egypt.

That thou mayest know, [b]that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy unto them that love him and keep his commandments, even to a thousand generations,

10 And rewardeth [c]them to their face that hate him, to bring them to destruction: he will not defer to reward him that hateth him, to his face.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:8 Freely, finding no cause in you more than in others so to do.
  2. Deuteronomy 7:9 And so put difference between him and idols.
  3. Deuteronomy 7:10 Meaning, manifestly, or in this life.

But it was because the Lord loved(A) you and kept the oath he swore(B) to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand(C) and redeemed(D) you from the land of slavery,(E) from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God;(F) he is the faithful God,(G) keeping his covenant of love(H) to a thousand generations(I) of those who love him and keep his commandments.(J) 10 But

those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction;
    he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.(K)

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