Hebrews 8:10

This is the covenant 2 that I will make with the house of Israel 1 after those days 2 —says the Lord. 1 I will put my laws into their minds, 1 and I will also write them on their hearts. 1 I will be their God, 1 and they will be my people. 1

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For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

In Context

9It will not be like the covenant 2 that I made with their ancestors 1 on the day that I took them by their hand 2 to lead them out of the land of Egypt. 1 For they did not carefully obey my covenant, 2 and I disregarded them 1 —says the Lord. 1

11They will not teach each one his neighbor 1 and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord.' 1 For they will all know me, 1 from the least of them to the greatest. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5Now then, if you obediently listen to my voice and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.

Exodus 24:7He took the book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people. They said, “We will do all that Yahweh has spoken. We will be obedient.”

Exodus 34:27Yahweh said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Song of Solomon 2:16My beloved is mine, and I am his; 1 he grazes among the lilies with pleasure. The woman speaking to the man 1

Jeremiah 31:1“At that time—this is Yahweh's declaration—I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be my people.”

Jeremiah 32:38Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 8:7-13

The Old and New Covenant. ( a. d. 62.) 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their… Read the whole commentary →

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