Let not (A)steadfast love and (B)faithfulness forsake you;
    (C)bind them around your neck;
    (D)write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Let love and faithfulness(A) never leave you;
    bind them around your neck,
    write them on the tablet of your heart.(B)

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And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of (A)the living God, not on (B)tablets of stone but on (C)tablets of (D)human hearts.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 3:3 Greek fleshly hearts

You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God,(A) not on tablets of stone(B) but on tablets of human hearts.(C)

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(A)bind them on your fingers;
    (B)write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Bind them on your fingers;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.(A)

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16 (A)“This is the covenant that I will make with them
    after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
    and write them on their minds,”

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16 “This is the covenant I will make with them
    after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
    and I will write them on their minds.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:16 Jer. 31:33

(A)True instruction[a] was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he (B)turned many from iniquity.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 2:6 Or law; also verses 7, 8, 9

True instruction(A) was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked(B) with me in peace(C) and uprightness,(D) and turned many from sin.(E)

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21 (A)Bind them on your heart always;
    (B)tie them around your neck.

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21 Bind them always on your heart;
    fasten them around your neck.(A)

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18 (A)“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and (B)you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 20 (C)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 (D)that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, (E)as long as the heavens are above the earth.

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18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(A) 19 Teach them to your children,(B) talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.(C) 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,(D) 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many(E) in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.(F)

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(for (A)the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

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(for the fruit(A) of the light consists in all goodness,(B) righteousness and truth)

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By (A)steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
    and by (B)the fear of the Lord one (C)turns away from evil.

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Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for;
    through the fear of the Lord(A) evil is avoided.(B)

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Walk in Love

(A)Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And (B)walk in love, (C)as Christ loved us and (D)gave himself up for us, a (E)fragrant (F)offering and sacrifice to God.

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Follow God’s example,(A) therefore, as dearly loved children(B) and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us(C) and gave himself up for us(D) as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.(E)

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28 (A)Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king,
    and by steadfast love his (B)throne is upheld.

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28 Love and faithfulness keep a king safe;
    through love(A) his throne is made secure.(B)

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for they are (A)a graceful garland for your head
    and (B)pendants for your neck.

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They are a garland to grace your head
    and a chain to adorn your neck.(A)

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And it shall (A)be to you as a sign on your hand and as (B)a memorial (C)between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.

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This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand(A) and a reminder on your forehead(B) that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.(C)

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