If you and your descendants will turn back to the LORD and with all your heart obey his commands that I am giving you today,

We may make our plans, but God has the last word.

I will take action against you. I will purify you the way metal is refined, and will remove all your impurity.

I will give you rulers and advisers like those you had long ago. Then Jerusalem will be called the righteous, faithful city."

The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

I will give them a single purpose in life: to honor me for all time, for their own good and the good of their descendants.

I will make an eternal covenant with them. I will never stop doing good things for them, and I will make them fear me with all their heart, so that they will never turn away from me.

I will give them a new heart and a new mind. I will take away their stubborn heart of stone and will give them an obedient heart.

Then they will keep my laws and faithfully obey all my commands. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

I will put my spirit in you and will see to it that you follow my laws and keep all the commands I have given you.

A king like my servant David will be their king. They will all be united under one ruler and will obey my laws faithfully.

And this is how all Israel will be saved. As the scripture says, "The Savior will come from Zion and remove all wickedness from the descendants of Jacob.

I will make this covenant with them when I take away their sins."

By his death on the cross Christ destroyed their enmity; by means of the cross he united both races into one body and brought them back to God.

because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose.