Ezekiel 23:48

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“So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.”

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BSBPD

“So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, And instructed have been all the women, And they do not according to your wickedness.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 23:48 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 13:11Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.
  2. Deuteronomy 13:12If, regarding one of the cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it said
  3. Isaiah 26:9My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
  4. Ezekiel 5:15So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  5. Ezekiel 6:6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
  6. Ezekiel 16:41Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
  7. Ezekiel 22:15I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.
  8. Ezekiel 23:27So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’
  9. Ezekiel 36:25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
  10. Micah 5:11I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your strongholds.
  11. Zephaniah 1:3“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.
  12. 1 Corinthians 10:6These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.
  13. 2 Peter 2:6if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

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