⁷ I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your ^[a]descendants after you throughout their generations as an ^(A)everlasting covenant, ^(B)to be God to you and ^(C)to your ^[b]descendants after you.

⁶ but showing ^[a]favor to ^(A)thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

⁴⁰ And with many other words he solemnly ^(A)testified and kept on urging them, saying, “^[a]Be saved from this ^(B)perverse generation!”

¹² For ^(A)the word of God is ^(B)living and ^(C)active, and sharper than any two-edged ^(D)sword, even penetrating as far as the division of ^(E)soul and ^(F)spirit, of both joints and marrow, and ^(G)able to ^[a]judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹⁵ so that you will ^[a]prove yourselves to be ^(A)blameless and innocent, ^(B)children of God above reproach in the midst of a ^(C)crooked and perverse generation, among whom you ^[b](D)appear as ^[c]lights in the world,