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

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

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

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

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

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10 All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful(A)
    toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.(B)

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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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17 “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool,(A)
    inscribed with a flint point,
on the tablets of their hearts(B)
    and on the horns(C) of their altars.

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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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Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(A)

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The Charge Against Israel

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites,
    because the Lord has a charge(A) to bring
    against you who live in the land:(B)
“There is no faithfulness,(C) no love,
    no acknowledgment(D) of God in the land.(E)

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23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth(A) of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness.(B) You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

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18 Who is a God(A) like you,
    who pardons sin(B) and forgives(C) the transgression
    of the remnant(D) of his inheritance?(E)
You do not stay angry(F) forever
    but delight to show mercy.(G)
19 You will again have compassion on us;
    you will tread our sins underfoot
    and hurl all our iniquities(H) into the depths of the sea.(I)
20 You will be faithful to Jacob,
    and show love to Abraham,(J)
as you pledged on oath to our ancestors(K)
    in days long ago.(L)

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20 You came only yesterday. And today shall I make you wander(A) about with us, when I do not know where I am going? Go back, and take your people with you. May the Lord show you kindness and faithfulness.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:20 Septuagint; Hebrew May kindness and faithfulness be with you

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