The New Covenant

³¹ “Look, the days are coming”^(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will make a new covenant^(B) with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ³² This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—my covenant that they broke even though I am their master”^[a](C)—the Lord’s declaration. ³³ “Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³⁴ No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’^(D) for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them”^(E)—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their iniquity^(F) and never again remember their sin.

²⁶ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you;^(A) I will remove your heart of stone^[a] and give you a heart of flesh.^{(B) 27} I will place my Spirit within you^(C) and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.^(D)

² Do not be conformed^(A) to this age,^(B) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,^(C) so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will^(D) of God.

⁹ And I pray this: that your love^(A) will keep on growing^(B) in knowledge and every kind of discernment,^{(C) 10} so that you may approve the things that are superior^(D) and may be pure^(E) and blameless^(F) in the day of Christ,^(G)

²¹ but test all things.^(A) Hold on to what is good.