Israel's New Heart and Spirit
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And the word of the Lord came to me:
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q "Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, r 'Go far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession.'
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Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord God: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet s I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.'
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Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord God: t I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, t and I will give you the land of Israel.'
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And when they come there, u they will remove from it all its v detestable things and all its abominations.
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w And I will give them one heart, and x a new spirit I will put within them. y I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh z and give them a heart of flesh,
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a that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. b And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
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c But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, d I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord God."
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e Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, e and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
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And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city and f stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city.
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g And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me h in the vision by the Spirit of God i into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.
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And I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had shown me.
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Ezekiel 2:1
And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.
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1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the Lord, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.
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Ezekiel 37:26
I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
Ezekiel 37:28
Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.
Isaiah 8:14
And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Revelation 21:22
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.
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Ezekiel 20:41
As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I b...
Ezekiel 28:25
Thus says the Lord God : When I gather the hous...
Ezekiel 34:13
And I will bring them out from the peoples and ...
Ezekiel 36:24
I will take you from the nations and gather you...
Ezekiel 37:21
Then say to them, Thus says the Lord God : Beho...
Ezekiel 38:8
After many days you will be mustered. In the la...
Ezekiel 39:27
When I have brought them back from the peoples ...
Isaiah 11:12
He will raise a signal for the nations and will...
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Ezekiel 20:41
As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I b...
Ezekiel 28:25
Thus says the Lord God : When I gather the hous...
Ezekiel 34:13
And I will bring them out from the peoples and ...
Ezekiel 36:24
I will take you from the nations and gather you...
Ezekiel 37:21
Then say to them, Thus says the Lord God : Beho...
Ezekiel 38:8
After many days you will be mustered. In the la...
Ezekiel 39:27
When I have brought them back from the peoples ...
Isaiah 11:12
He will raise a signal for the nations and will...
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Ezekiel 37:23
They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
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Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
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Jeremiah 32:39
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.
Acts 4:32
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.
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Ezekiel 36:26
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?
Psalms 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord : I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Zechariah 7:12
They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.
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2 Corinthians 3:3
And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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Psalms 105:45
That they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise the Lord!
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Ezekiel 14:11
That the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor defile themselves anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, declares the Lord God.
Ezekiel 36:28
You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Leviticus 26:12
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
Jeremiah 30:22
And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord : I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Ezekiel 9:4 - 6
And the Lord said to him, "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.
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Ezekiel 7:4
And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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Ezekiel 10:19
And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels beside them. And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the Lord, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
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Ezekiel 10:19
And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels beside them. And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the Lord, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
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Zechariah 14:4
On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.
Ezekiel 43:2
And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory.
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Ezekiel 11:1
The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the Lord, which faces east. And behold, at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men. And I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
Ezekiel 3:12
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great earthquake: "Blessed be the glory of the Lord from its place!
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Ezekiel 1:1
In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
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Ezekiel 1:3
The word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the Lord was upon him there.
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