Hebrews 8:12

“For I will be merciful toward their unrighteous deeds, and their sins I will never remember anymore.”

Hebrews 8:12 · direct translation from the Greek
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Hebrews 8:12, word by word

I will beἔσομαιesomai

be

To be: says who or what something is.

Where else “esomai” appears
mercifulἵλεωςhileōs

merciful

Forgiving and kind.

Where else “hileōs” appears
toward their unrighteous deedsἀδικίαιςadikiais

unrighteousness

Injustice, unrighteousness.

Where else “adikiais” appears
their sinsἁμαρτιῶνhamartiōn

sin

Doing what God does not want, and the guilt it leaves.

Where else “hamartiōn” appears
rememberμνησθῶmnēsthō

remember to help

To remember someone in order to help them.

Where else “mnēsthō” appears

Translation note· on the manuscripts

Many manuscripts add “and their lawless deeds.”

The context

11And they will never teach, each his fellow citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest of them.

12 · This verse (above)

13In speaking of a new one, he has made the first one old; and what is becoming old and growing aged is near to disappearing.

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