Ezekiel 11:20
What does Ezekiel 11:20 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 11:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
KJV
King James Version · 1611That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752That they may walk in my commandments, and keep my judgments, and do them: and that they may be my people, and I may be their God.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be theirGod.
Context
v.19And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
v.20This passage
v.21But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Romans 16:26
but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:
- Jeremiah 24:7
And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
- Luke 1:74
To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies Should serve him without fear,
- Jeremiah 11:4
which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God;
- Jeremiah 30:22
And ye 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, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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