Scripture
Jeremiah
31:31-34 (NRSV)
31 The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house
of Judah.
32 It will not
be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- a covenant
that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord.
33 But this is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those
days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write
it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my
people.
34 No longer shall
they teach one another, or say to each other, ‘Know the Lord’,
for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,
says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their
sin no more.
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