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The woman listener reconciles with an anonymous elderly neighbor at an open doorway, clasping forearms in mutual welcome; younger and older listeners wait behind with attentive faces.
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Hebrews 8:10-13

Written on hearts

The promised covenant · Hebrews 8

Story guide: The promised covenant concerns inward knowledge of God and mercy. Reconciliation is an illustrative response, not a new event attributed to the letter.

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10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: putting my laws into their minds, and I will write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

11And they will certainly not teach, each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

12For I will be merciful toward their unrighteousness, and I will remember their sins no more.

13By saying, “new,” he has made the first obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is near to disappearing.

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