Ezekiel 11:20

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“so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.”

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BSBPD

“so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“That 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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“that 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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“So 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.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 11:20 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 17:8And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
  2. Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
  3. Psalms 105:45that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
  4. Psalms 119:4You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.
  5. Psalms 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
  6. Jeremiah 11:4which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
  7. Jeremiah 24:5“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
  8. Jeremiah 24:7I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
  9. Jeremiah 30:22“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
  10. Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  11. Jeremiah 32:38They will be My people, and I will be their God.
  12. Jeremiah 32:39I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
  13. Ezekiel 11:12Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
  14. Ezekiel 14:11in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”
  15. Ezekiel 36:27And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
  16. Ezekiel 37:23They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
  17. Ezekiel 37:27My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  18. Hosea 2:23And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
  19. Zechariah 13:9This third I will bring through the fire;I will refine them like silverand test them like gold.They will call on My name,and I will answer them.I will say, ‘They are My people,’and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
  20. Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
  21. Luke 1:74deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,
  22. Romans 16:26but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—
  23. 1 Corinthians 11:2Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.
  24. Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.

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