and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
⛓ Read Exodus 20 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
God shows steadfast love 'to those who love me and keep my commandments.' James's phrase 'those who love him' draws on the deuteronomic/Decalogue language of love for God as the covenantal mark of the faithful who receive his promise.
Medium confidenceThe Decalogue promises steadfast love 'to those who love me and keep my commandments,' the foundational love-and-obey formula behind 14:15. Strong Coherence with John's repeated linkage of loving Jesus and keeping his word; medium because it is one of several overlapping Pentateuchal sources for the same idiom.
Medium confidence'His mercy is for generations... on those who fear him' echoes the Decalogue's promise of steadfast love 'to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments' (Exodus 20:6; Deuteronomy 5:10). The covenant mercy-to-generations formula coheres with Psalm 103.
Medium confidence'Showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments' supplies the covenantal designation 'those who love God' (v.28), the loving-God-and-being-blessed pattern.
Low confidence