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Never let loyalty and kindness leave you!
    Tie them around your neck as a reminder.
    Write them deep within 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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Tie them on your fingers as a reminder.
    Write them deep within your heart.

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

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Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This “letter” is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.

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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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16 “This is the new covenant I will make
    with my people on that day,[a] says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts,
    and I will write them on their minds.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:16a Greek after those days.
  2. 10:16b Jer 31:33a.

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

21 Keep their words always in your heart.
    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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They passed on to the people the truth of the instructions they received from me. They did not lie or cheat; they walked with me, living good and righteous lives, and they turned many from lives of sin.

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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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18 “So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. 19 Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. 20 Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.

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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 this light within you produces only what 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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Living in the Light

Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us[a] and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:2 Some manuscripts read loved you.

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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Unfailing love and faithfulness make atonement for sin.
    By fearing the Lord, people avoid 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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28 Unfailing love and faithfulness protect the king;
    his throne is made secure through love.

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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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What you learn from them will crown you with grace
    and be a chain of honor around 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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11 I have hidden your word in my heart,
    that I might not sin against you.

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11 I have hidden your word in my heart(A)
    that I might not sin(B) against you.

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