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Hebrews 8:10

in Hebrews 8

For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

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 on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:

KJV

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:

This verse in Hebrews 8

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Clement of Alexandria

Exhortation to the Heathen · Written before 215.

on Hebrews 8:10-11

Having bestowed on us the truly great, divine, and inalienable inheritance of the Father, deifying man by heavenly teaching, putting His laws into our minds, and writing them on our hearts. What laws does He inscribe? "That all shall know God, from small to great;" and, "I will be merciful to them," says God, "and will not remember their sins." Let us receive the laws of life, let us comply with God's expostulations; let us become acquainted with Him, that He may be gracious.

This site's exposition

I will put my laws into their mind

on Hebrews 8:10-12

The new covenant's terms follow in three parts: God's law written in mind and heart rather than merely on stone, the relation renewed, I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people, and knowledge of the Lord no longer needing to be taught teacher to neighbor, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. The list reaches its own summit at verse 12, I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more, the once-for-all forgiveness the letter argues through in the two chapters that follow. Every clause is still addressed to the house of Israel named two verses earlier, the covenant fulfilled without Israel being written out of its own promise.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

This is the covenant I will make after those days - After the Mosaic dispensation is abolished. I will put my laws in their minds - I will open their eyes, and enlighten their understanding, to see the true, full, spiritual meaning thereof.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This is the foundation of the covenant; and, when this is laid, duty will be done wisely, sincerely, readily, easily, resolutely, constantly, and comfortably. (2.) He articles with them to take them into a near and very honourable relation to himself. [1.] He will be to them a God; that is, he will be all that to them, and do all that for them, that God can be and do.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I will put--literally, "(I) giving." This is the first of the "better promises" (Heb 8:6). mind--their intelligent faculty. in, &c.--rather, " ON their hearts." Not on tables of stone as the law (2Co 3:3). write--Greek, "inscribe." and I will be to them a God, &c.--fulfilled first in the outward kingdom of God. Next, in the inward Gospel kingdom.

The words behind it

39 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 31:33

    “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And…

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 10:16

      “This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Corinthians 3:3

      It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on…

    • Ezekiel 11:19–20

      And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,

    • Jeremiah 24:7

      I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their…

    • Jeremiah 32:40

      I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away…

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 3:3

    It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 11:19

      And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,

    • Jeremiah 31:33

      “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And…

    • Psalms 40:8

      I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

Where this verse is studied

About Hebrews

Christ Presented to the People — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)
Christ Presented to the People — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.