⁸ Then you will again obey the Lord and keep all his commands that I am giving you today.

¹⁶ Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death.

²⁷ And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.

¹³ For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

²⁴ “My servant David will be their king, and they will have only one shepherd. They will obey my regulations and be careful to keep my decrees.

¹⁹ And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart,^{[a] 20} so they will obey my decrees and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants. ⁴⁰ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me.

³³ “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days,” says the Lord. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

² If at that time you and your children return to the Lord your God, and if you obey with all your heart and all your soul all the commands I have given you today,