I tend to use the New Century version of the Bible, the sentence structure is more like the way we hear it in English than in the Greek. Or actually the Aramaic. Where the verse that says “Change your hearts and lives” might be more familiar to those of you who know these scriptures as Jesus saying, “Repent.” And I think traditionally, we often think of repent, as needing to express our contrition for sins that we've committed. But the word here is metanoia. It actually means a new way. And so what Jesus is saying is, let's find a new way.
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