Hebrews 8:12
in Hebrews 8For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more.
KJV
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
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This verse in Hebrews 8
Commentary
4 notes on this verseI will be merciful to their unrighteousness - In order to be their God, as mentioned under the preceding verse, it is requisite that their iniquity should be pardoned; this is provided for by the immolation of Jesus Christ as the covenant sacrifice. By his blood, redemption has been purchased, and all who with penitent hearts believe on the Lord Jesus receive remission of sins, and God remembers their iniquities no more against them so as to punish them on that account.
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 Awakening1 voice
This pardoning mercy is connected with all other spiritual mercies. Unpardoned sin prevents mercy, and pulls down judgments; but the pardon of sin prevents judgment, and opens a wide door to all spiritual blessings; it is the effect of that mercy that is from everlasting, and the earnest of that mercy that shall be to everlasting.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Sin being abolished, sinners obtain grace. I will be merciful--Greek, "propitious"; the Hebrew, "salach," is always used of God only in relation to men. and their iniquities--not found in Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, and one oldest Greek manuscript; but most oldest manuscripts have the words (compare Heb 10:17). remember no more--Contrast the law, Heb 10:3.
The words behind it
14 Greek wordsEvery 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.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ὅτι | hoti | because | G3754 → | 1292 times |
| ἵλεως | ileos | merciful | G2436 → | |
| ἔσομαι | esomai | I will be | G1510 → | 2333 times |
| ταῖς | tais | toward the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ἀδικίαις | adikiais | iniquities | G93 → | |
| αὐτῶν | auton | of them | G846 → | 5565 times |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| τῶν | ton | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ἁμαρτιῶν | hamartion | sins | G266 → | 173 times |
| αὐτῶν | auton | of them | G846 → | 5565 times |
| οὐ | ou | certainly | G3756 → | 1664 times |
| μὴ | me | not | G3361 → | 1066 times |
| μνησθῶ | mnestho | I may remember | G3403 → | 23 times |
| ἔτι.¶ | eti | more. | G2089 → | 140 times |
ὅτιbecause
hotiG3754 →1292 times
ἵλεωςmerciful
ileosG2436 →
ἔσομαιI will be
esomaiG1510 →2333 times
ταῖςtoward the
taisG3588 →19766 times
ἀδικίαιςiniquities
adikiaisG93 →
αὐτῶνof them
autonG846 →5565 times
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
τῶνthe
tonG3588 →19766 times
ἁμαρτιῶνsins
hamartionG266 →173 times
αὐτῶνof them
autonG846 →5565 times
οὐcertainly
ouG3756 →1664 times
μὴnot
meG3361 →1066 times
μνησθῶI may remember
mnesthoG3403 →23 times
ἔτι.¶more.
etiG2089 →140 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Isaiah 43:25I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 31:34
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Micah 7:18–19
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- Hebrews 10:17
Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”
- Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
- Isaiah 44:22
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- Jeremiah 31:34
Through
Romans 11:27And this is My covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
it leads to
- Jeremiah 31:31–34
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
- Jeremiah 31:31–34
Through
Micah 7:19He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
it leads to
- Isaiah 38:17
Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- Romans 6:14
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- Isaiah 38:17
Where this verse is studied
About Hebrews
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.