but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.

And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.

Yet the LORD set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations —as it is today.

He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land —your grain, new wine and olive oil —the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow —to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him —

Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.

The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.

Then Samson’s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, "You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer." "I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother," he replied, "so why should I explain it to you?"