The New Covenant

^31 (A)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make ^(B)a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, ³² not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when ^(C)I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, ^(D)though I was their husband, declares the Lord. ^33 (E)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: ^(F)I will put my law within them, and I will write it ^(G)on their hearts. ^(H)And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ ^(I)for they shall all know me, ^(J)from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For ^(K)I will forgive their iniquity, and ^(L)I will remember their sin no more.”

²¹ And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and ^(A)has anointed us, ²² and who has also ^(B)put his seal on us and ^(C)given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.^[a]

⁴ For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal ^(A)may be swallowed up by life. ⁵ He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, ^(B)who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

⁶ So we are always of good courage. We know that ^(C)while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, ⁷ for ^(D)we walk by faith, not ^(E)by sight.

^16 (A)The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

¹³ In him you also, when you heard ^(A)the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, ^(B)were sealed with the ^(C)promised Holy Spirit, ¹⁴ who is ^(D)the guarantee^[a] of our ^(E)inheritance until ^(F)we acquire ^(G)possession of it,^{[b] (H)}to the praise of his glory.