Luke 1:72
To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
KJV
ποιῆσαι ἔλεος μετὰ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν καὶ μνησθῆναι διαθήκης ἁγίας αὐτοῦ,
Greek NT
ad faciendam misericordiam cum patribus nostris : et memorari testamenti sui sancti :
Vulgate
To show mercy towards our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant;
ASV
To perform mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy testament.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διαθήκη
diatheke
noun · 33×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μετά
meta
preposition · 469×
μιμνήσκω
mimnesko
verb · 23×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ἔλεος
eleos
noun · 27×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 8:23 — And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
- 1Kgs 8:56 — Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his
- Acts 3:25 — Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
- Dan 9:4 — And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
- Deut 4:31 — (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
- Deut 7:8 — But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen,
- Deut 7:12 — Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
- Eph 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
- Exod 2:24 — And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Ezek 16:60 — Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
- Gal 3:18 — For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
- Gen 9:15 — And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Gen 17:7 — And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
- Gen 17:21 — But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
- Gen 22:18 — And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
- Gen 26:4 — And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
- Gen 28:14 — And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the
- Hab 3:9 — Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
- Heb 1:1 — God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
- Heb 6:13 — For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
- Isa 14:1 — For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
- Jer 32:40 — And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
- Lev 26:9 — For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
- Lev 26:42 — Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
- Luke 1:54 — He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
- Mic 7:20 — Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
- Mic 7:20 — Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
- Neh 1:8 — Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
- Ps 69:13 — But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
- Ps 98:3 — He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
- Ps 105:8 — He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
- Ps 105:8 — He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
- Ps 105:42 — For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
- Ps 106:45 — And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
- Ps 111:5 — He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
- Rom 11:28 — As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
- Titus 3:5 — Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;