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31 The day will come, says the Lord, when I will make a new contract with the people of Israel and Judah. 32 It won’t be like the one I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a contract they broke, forcing me to reject them,[a] says the Lord. 33 But this is the new contract I will make with them: I will inscribe my laws upon their hearts,[b] so that they shall want to honor me; then they shall truly be my people and I will be their God.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:32 a contract they broke, forcing me to reject them. Some versions read, “a covenant they broke, even though I cared for them as a husband does his wife.” See Hebrews 8:9b.
  2. Jeremiah 31:33 upon their hearts, i.e., rather than upon tablets of stone, as were the Ten Commandments. so that they shall want to honor me. In Jeremiah 17:1 their sin was inscribed on their hearts, so that they wanted above all to disobey. This change seems to describe an experience very much like, if not the same as, the new birth.

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