Micah 4:1-4

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A peaceable world

4 But in the days to come,
        the mountain of the Lord’s house
            will be the highest of the mountains;
        it will be lifted above the hills;
            peoples will stream to it.
²Many nations will go and say:
    “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord,
            to the house of Jacob’s God,
        so that he may teach us his ways
            and we may walk in God’s paths!”
Instruction will come from Zion
        and the Lord’s word from Jerusalem.
³God will judge between the nations
        and settle disputes of mighty nations,
            which are far away.
They will beat their swords into iron plows
        and their spears into pruning tools.
Nation will not take up sword against nation;
        they will no longer learn how to make war.
⁴All will sit underneath their own grapevines,
        under their own fig trees.
    There will be no one to terrify them;
        for the mouth of the Lord of heavenly forces has spoken.

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Hebrews 10:11-18

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¹¹Every priest stands every day serving and offering the same sacrifices over and over, sacrifices that can never take away sins. ¹²But when this priest offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right side of God. ¹³Since then, he’s waiting until his enemies are made into a footstool for his feet, ¹⁴because he perfected the people who are being made holy with one offering for all time.

¹⁵The Holy Spirit affirms this when saying,

¹⁶This is the covenant that I will make with them.
    After these days, says the Lord,
        I will place my laws in their hearts
        and write them on their minds.
¹⁷    And I won’t remember their sins
        and their lawless behavior anymore.^[a]

¹⁸When there is forgiveness for these things, there is no longer an offering for sin.

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Footnotes

Hebrews 10:17 Jer 31:33-34

John 14:18-31

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¹⁸“I won’t leave you as orphans. I will come to you. ¹⁹Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live too. ²⁰On that day you will know that I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹Whoever has my commandments and keeps them loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”

²²Judas (not Judas Iscariot) asked, “Lord, why are you about to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

²³Jesus answered, “Whoever loves me will keep my word. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. ²⁴Whoever doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word that you hear isn’t mine. It is the word of the Father who sent me.

²⁵“I have spoken these things to you while I am with you. ²⁶The Companion,^[a] the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I told you.

²⁷“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you. I give to you not as the world gives. Don’t be troubled or afraid. ²⁸You have heard me tell you, ‘I’m going away and returning to you.’ If you loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than me. ²⁹I have told you before it happens so that when it happens you will believe. ³⁰I won’t say much more to you because this world’s ruler is coming. He has nothing on me. ³¹Rather, he comes so that the world will know that I love the Father and do just as the Father has commanded me. Get up. We’re leaving this place.

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