⁷ I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God.^(A) Then you will know^(B) that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

⁴⁵ I am the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt^(A) to be your God;^(B) therefore be holy, because I am holy.^(C)

¹² I will walk^(A) among you and be your God,^(B) and you will be my people.^(C)

⁴⁵ But for their sake I will remember^(A) the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt^(B) in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

¹³ to confirm you this day as his people,^(A) that he may be your God^(B) as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

¹⁶ Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one.^(A) Therefore God is not ashamed^(B) to be called their God,^(C) for he has prepared a city^(D) for them.

⁷ Those who are victorious^(A) will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.^(B)