“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:”
'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 write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people' — the internalization of the law (into mind and heart) marks the decisive transition from external legal obligation to internal transformation. Write on hearts recalls the new heart promised in Ezekiel 36:26; God himself effects the epistemic and volitional change necessary for covenant faithfulness. The reciprocal relationship ('I will be their God, they shall be my people') restores what was damaged at Sinai.
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