Revelation 21:7

21:7 The one who conquers ¹  will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

Genesis 17:7-8

17:7 I will confirm ²  my covenant as a perpetual ³  covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. ⁴  17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing ⁵  – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent ⁶  possession. I will be their God.”

Jeremiah 31:33

31:33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel ⁷  after I plant them back in the land,” ⁸  says the Lord. ⁹  “I will ¹⁰  put my law within them ¹¹  and write it on their hearts and minds. ¹²  I will be their God and they will be my people. ¹³ 

Jeremiah 32:38

32:38 They will be my people, and I will be their God. ¹⁴ 

Zechariah 13:9

13:9 Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire;

I will refine them like silver is refined

and will test them like gold is tested.

They will call on my name and I will answer;

I will say, ‘These are my people,’

and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’” ¹⁵ 

Zechariah 13:2

13:2 And also on that day,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will remove ¹⁶  the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Colossians 1:18

1:18 He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn ¹⁷  from among the dead, so that he himself may become first in all things. ¹⁸ 

Hebrews 8:10

8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put ¹⁹  my laws in their minds ²⁰  and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. ²¹ 

Hebrews 11:16

11:16 But as it is, ²²  they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

¹ tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”

² tn The verb קוּם (qum, “to arise, to stand up”) in the Hiphil verbal stem means “to confirm, to give effect to, to carry out” (i.e., a covenant or oath; see BDB 878-79 s.v. קוּם).

³ tn Or “as an eternal.”

⁴ tn Heb “to be to you for God and to your descendants after you.”

⁵ tn The verbal root is גּוּר (gur, “to sojourn, to reside temporarily,” i.e., as a resident alien). It is the land in which Abram resides, but does not yet possess as his very own.

⁶ tn Or “as an eternal.”

⁷ tn Heb “with the house of Israel.” All commentators agree that the term here refers to both the whole nation which was divided into the house of Israel and the house of Judah in v. 30.

⁸ tn Heb “after those days.” Commentators are generally agreed that this refers to the return from exile and the repopulation of the land referred to in vv. 27-28 and not to something subsequent to the time mentioned in v. 30. This is the sequencing that is also presupposed in other new covenant passages such as Deut 30:1-6; Ezek 11:17-20; 36:24-28.

⁹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “‘But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after these days:’ says the Lord, ‘I will….’” The sentence has been reworded and restructured to avoid the awkwardness of the original style.

¹¹ tn Heb “in their inward parts.” The Hebrew word here refers to the seat of the thoughts, emotions, and decisions (Jer 9:8 [9:7 HT]). It is essentially synonymous with “heart” in Hebrew psychological terms.

¹² tn The words “and minds” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation to bring the English psychology more into line with the Hebrew where the “heart” is the center both of knowing/thinking/reflecting and deciding/willing.

¹³ sn Compare Jer 24:7; 30:22; 31:1 and see the study note on 30:2.

¹⁴ sn The covenant formula setting forth the basic relationship is reinstituted along with a new covenant (v. 40). See also 24:7; 30:22; 31:1 and the study note on 30:22.

¹⁵ sn The expression I will say ‘It is my people,’ and they will say ‘the Lord is my God’ is reminiscent of the restoration of Israel predicted by Hosea, who said that those who had been rejected as God’s people would be reclaimed and once more become his sons and daughters (Hos 2:23).

¹⁶ tn Heb “cut off” (so NRSV); NAB “destroy”; NIV “banish.”

¹⁷ tn See the note on the term “firstborn” in 1:15. Here the reference to Jesus as the “firstborn from among the dead” seems to be arguing for a chronological priority, i.e., Jesus was the first to rise from the dead.

¹⁸ tn Grk “in order that he may become in all things, himself, first.”

¹⁹ tn Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”

²⁰ tn Grk “mind.”

²¹ tn Grk “I will be to them for a God and they will be to me for a people,” following the Hebrew constructions of Jer 31.

²² tn Grk “now.”