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11 Not one of them
will have to teach another
    to know me, their Lord.’

“All of them will know me,
    no matter who they are.
12 I will treat them with kindness,
even though they are wicked.
    I will forget their sins.”

13 When the Lord talks about a new agreement, he means that the first one is out of date. And anything that is old and useless will soon disappear.

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11 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,(A)
    from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will forgive their wickedness
    and will remember their sins no more.(B)[a](C)

13 By calling this covenant “new,”(D) he has made the first one obsolete;(E) and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:12 Jer. 31:31-34