Hebrews 8:8-13

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁸ But God found something wrong with his people and said to them,

“The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah. ⁹ It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, so I ignored them, says the Lord. ¹⁰ But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. ¹¹ No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying, ‘Know the Lord.’ All of them from the least important to the most important will all know me ¹² because I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold their sins against them.”

¹³ God made this new promise and showed that the first promise was outdated. What is outdated and aging will soon disappear.