not only with our fathers, but with all of us who are living today.

I will give them a single purpose in life: to honor me for all time, for their own good and the good of their descendants.

They will ask the way to Zion and then go in that direction. They will make an eternal covenant with me and never break it.

For God's promise was made to you and your children, and to all who are far away---all whom the Lord our God calls to himself."

For the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to God by being united to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband. If this were not so, their children would be like pagan children; but as it is, they are acceptable to God.