Fifth Sunday of Lent – 1st Reading

March 17, 2024

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Lectionary: 35

The days are coming, says the LORD, 
when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel 
and the house of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers
the day I took them by the hand 
to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; 
for they broke my covenant, 
and I had to show myself their master, says the LORD.

But this is the covenant that I will make 
with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD.
I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts; 
I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
No longer will they have need to teach their friends and relatives
how to know the LORD.

All, from least to greatest, shall know me, says the LORD, 
for I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sin no more.

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