“For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.”

Again he says, “I will be confident in him,” and again, “Here I am, with the children God has given me.”

For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? And in another place he says, “I will be his father and he will be my son.”

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