10. But this is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israelafter those days, says the Lord:I will put my laws in their mindsand I will write them upon their hearts.I will be their God,and they shall be my people.
11. And they shall not teach, each one his fellow citizenand kinsman, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’for all shall know me,from least to greatest.
12. For I will forgive their evildoingand remember their sins no more.”
13. When he speaks of a “new” covenant, he declares the first one obsolete. And what has become obsolete and has grown old is close to disappearing.