but showing love to a thousand [generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
So he replied to the messengers, 'Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth; he saves them from the clutches of the powerful. So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
Arise, O LORD, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.