And he said, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.

Let the girl to whom I shall say, “Please offer your jar that I may drink”, and who shall say, “Drink, and I will water your camels”—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.’

and said, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness towards my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the way to the house of my master’s kin.’

I am not worthy of the least of all the steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love; he gave him favour in the sight of the chief jailer.

‘In your steadfast love you led the people whom you redeemed; you guided them by your strength to your holy abode.

but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

The Lord passed before him, and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.’

“The Lord is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.”

Forgive the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have pardoned this people, from Egypt even until now.’

but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you! And I too will reward you because you have done this thing.

But I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.

You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, while I go wherever I can? Go back, and take your kinsfolk with you; and may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.’

He is a tower of salvation for his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants for ever.

And Solomon said, ‘You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart towards you; and you have kept for him this great and steadfast love, and have given him a son to sit on his throne today.

He said, ‘O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and steadfast love for your servants who walk before you with all their heart,

O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever.

With them were Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen and expressly named to render thanks to the Lord, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,

Solomon said to God, ‘You have shown great and steadfast love to my father David, and have made me succeed him as king.

it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord, ‘For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever’, the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

He said, ‘O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant in steadfast love with your servants who walk before you with all their heart—

O Lord God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember your steadfast love for your servant David.’