⁹ Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;

²³ Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:

¹³ If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself.

⁹ God is true, through whom you have been given a part with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁴ And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders;

⁵ And said, O Lord, the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be feared, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws:

²⁴ God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.

³ But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.

¹² There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

⁷ The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.

¹⁰ And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.

⁶ And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.

⁷ And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

⁹ If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

¹⁸ As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.

⁶ And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

⁷ Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

¹⁵ He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

⁷⁵ I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

⁶ Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:

²³ They are new every morning; great is your good faith.

²⁸ And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

³ But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

³ And they all took the same holy food;

² In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

¹¹ And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

³⁵ All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other.