III. He promises that they shall be such as they should be, and then he will be to them such as they would have him to be, v. 7. 1. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name. This is pure gospel. The precept of the law says, You must not defile my name: the grace of the gospel says, You shall not. Thus what is required in the covenant is promised in the covenant, Jer. xxxii. 40. 2. Then I will dwell in the midst of them for ever; and the same again v. 9. God secures to us his good-will by confirming in us his good work. If we do not defile his name, we may be sure that he will not depart from us.