Hebrews 10:16

This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind will I write them; then saith he, And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

The author still has in mind the extensive prophecy of the new covenant by Jeremiah which he more fully quoted in Hebrews 8, where he used it to show that God had foretold the abrogation of the old covenant and had from the first intended to abolish it. At this place the author dwells upon the fact that true and total forgiveness was likewise a foreordained purpose of the new institution. Westcott said, "The consequences of sin are threefold: debt which requires forgiveness, bondage which requires redemption, and alienation which requires reconciliation." All of these, forgiveness, redemption, and reconciliation are found in Jesus Christ. The most precious words in all the Bible, perhaps, with reference to the hope of eternal life and in view of the number and weight of sins, are these, "And their iniquities will I remember no more." How sacred is this promise. Sins which people themselves cannot forget, God will forget! "`Remember no more' is a contrast to `remembrance year by year.' Man remembers, but God forgets when he forgives."[22]