The New Covenant
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"Behold, the w days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah -
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"not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that x I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.
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y "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: z I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; a and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
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"No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for b they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For c I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
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Thus says the LORD,
d Who gives the sun for a light by day,
The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night,
Who disturbs e the sea,
And its waves roar
f (The LORD of hosts is His name):
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"If g those ordinances depart
From before Me, says the LORD,
Then the seed of Israel shall also cease
From being a nation before Me forever."
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Thus says the LORD:
h "If heaven above can be measured,
And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
I will also i cast off all the seed of Israel
For all that they have done, says the LORD.
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"Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built for the LORD j from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
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k "The surveyor's line shall again extend straight forward over the hill Gareb; then it shall turn toward Goath.
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"And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Brook Kidron, l to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, m shall be holy to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever."
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Cross References
Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an everlasting covenant with th...
Jeremiah 33:14
Behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, 't...
Ezekiel 37:26
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with t...
Hebrews 8:8 - 12
Because finding fault with them, He says: "Beho...
Hebrews 10:16
"This is the covenant that I will make with the...
Hebrews 10:17
Then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless dee...
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31
'and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.'
Isaiah 63:12
Who led them by the right hand of Moses, With His glorious arm, Dividing the water before them To make for Himself an everlasting name.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.
Hebrews 10:16
"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"
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Cross References
Psalms 40:8
I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.
Ezekiel 11:19
Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
2 Corinthians 3:3
Clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 24:7
Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.
Jeremiah 30:22
'You shall be My people, And I will be your God.'"
Jeremiah 32:38
They shall be My people, and I will be their God.
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Cross References
Isaiah 11:9
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy ...
Isaiah 54:13
All your children shall be taught by the LORD, ...
Jeremiah 24:7
Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that ...
Habakkuk 2:14
For the earth will be filled With the knowledge...
John 6:45
It is written in the prophets, 'And they shall ...
1 Corinthians 2:10
But God has revealed them to us through His Spi...
1 John 2:20
But you have an anointing from the Holy One, an...
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Cross References
Jeremiah 33:8
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by ...
Jeremiah 50:20
In those days and in that time," says the LORD,...
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And p...
Acts 10:43
"To Him all the prophets witness that, through ...
Acts 13:39
And by Him everyone who believes is justified f...
Romans 11:27
For this is My covenant with them, When I take ...
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Cross References
Genesis 1:14 - 18
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firm...
Deuteronomy 4:19
And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heave...
Psalms 72:5
They shall fear You As long as the sun and moon...
Psalms 72:17
His name shall endure forever; His name shall c...
Psalms 89:2
For I have said, "Mercy shall be built up forev...
Psalms 89:36
His seed shall endure forever, And his throne a...
Psalms 119:91
They continue this day according to Your ordina...
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Cross References
Isaiah 51:15
But I am the LORD your God, Who divided the sea whose waves roared - The LORD of hosts is His name.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 10:16
The Portion of Jacob is not like them, For He is the Maker of all things, And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD of hosts is His name.
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Cross References
Psalms 148:6
He also established them forever and ever; He made a decree which shall not pass away.
Isaiah 54:9
For this is like the waters of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
Isaiah 54:10
For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.
Jeremiah 33:20
Thus says the LORD: 'If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season.
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Cross References
Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, Measured heaven with a span And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales And the hills in a balance?
Jeremiah 33:22
'As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.'"
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Cross References
Jeremiah 33:24 - 26
Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off'? Thus they have despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.
Romans 11:2 - 5
God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying.
Romans 11:26
And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
Romans 11:27
For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins.
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Cross References
Nehemiah 3:1
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and built the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and hung its doors. They built as far as the Tower of the Hundred, and consecrated it, then as far as the Tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah 12:39
And above the Gate of Ephraim, above the Old Gate, above the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stopped by the Gate of the Prison.
Zechariah 14:10
All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 40:8
He also measured the vestibule of the inside gate, one rod.
Zechariah 2:1
Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zechariah 2:2
So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.
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Cross References
2 Kings 11:16
So they seized her; and she went by way of the horses' entrance into the king's house, and there she was killed.
2 Chronicles 23:15
So they seized her; and she went by way of the entrance of the Horse Gate into the king's house, and they killed her there.
Nehemiah 3:28
Beyond the Horse Gate the priests made repairs, each in front of his own house.
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Cross References
Joel 3:17
"So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, Dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, And no aliens shall ever pass through her again."
Zechariah 14:20
In that day "HOLINESS TO THE LORD" shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
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