revealing that y’all are a letter from Christ, ministered to by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,” says the Lord [YHWH], “I will put my laws upon their heart, I will also write them on their mind.”
True instruction was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
This will be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that YHWH’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand YHWH has brought you out of Egypt.
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of y’all’s altars.
Children of Israel, y’all must listen to the word of YHWH, for YHWH has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
“Woe to y’all, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For y’all give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin. But y’all have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. Y’all should have done these things, without neglecting the others.
Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”