38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

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For he finds fault with them when he says:[a]

(A)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
    when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
    and with the house of Judah,
not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
    on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
For they did not continue in my covenant,
    and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
10 (B)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
    after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds,
    and (C)write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
    and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall (D)all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
    (E)and I will remember their sins no more.”

13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And (F)what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:8 Some manuscripts For finding fault with it he says to them

26 And I will give you (A)a new heart, and (B)a new spirit I will put within you. (C)And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

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And (A)he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I (B)am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for (C)these words are trustworthy and true.”

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Christ Has Set Us Free

For (A)freedom Christ has (B)set us free; (C)stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to (D)a yoke of (E)slavery.

Look: I, Paul, say to you that (F)if you accept circumcision, (G)Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that (H)he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are (I)severed from Christ, (J)you who would be justified[a] by the law; (K)you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly (L)wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus (M)neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but (N)only faith working through love.

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  1. Galatians 5:4 Or counted righteous

But now that you have come to know God, or rather (A)to be known by God, (B)how can you turn back again to (C)the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10 (D)You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11 I am afraid (E)I may have labored over you in vain.

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Do not be (A)led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, (B)not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. 10 We have an altar (C)from which those who serve the tent[a] have no right to eat.

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  1. Hebrews 13:10 Or tabernacle

for while (A)bodily training is of some value, godliness (B)is of value in every way, as (C)it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

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19 and (A)not (B)holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

20 If with Christ (C)you died to the (D)elemental spirits of the world, (E)why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21 (F)“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” 22 ((G)referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to (H)human precepts and teachings? 23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in (I)promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are (J)of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

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(A)circumcised on the eighth day, (B)of the people of Israel, (C)of the tribe of Benjamin, (D)a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, (E)a Pharisee; (F)as to zeal, (G)a persecutor of the church; (H)as to righteousness under the law,[a] blameless. But (I)whatever gain I had, (J)I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

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  1. Philippians 3:6 Greek in the law

13 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. 14 But far be it from me to boast (A)except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which[a] the world (B)has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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  1. Galatians 6:14 Or through whom

12 For before certain men came from James, (A)he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing (B)the circumcision party.[a] 13 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that their (C)conduct was not in step with (D)the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas (E)before them all, “If you, though a Jew, (F)live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

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  1. Galatians 2:12 Or fearing those of the circumcision

(A)Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who (B)slipped in to spy out (C)our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, (D)so that they might bring us into slavery—

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