Ezekiel 36:26

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“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

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BSBPD

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 36:26 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. 1 Samuel 10:9As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed Saul’s heart, and all the signs came to pass that day.
  3. Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
  4. 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.
  5. Ezekiel 11:19And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
  6. Ezekiel 39:29And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
  7. Zechariah 7:12They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.
  8. Matthew 13:5Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow.
  9. Matthew 13:20The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
  10. Mark 4:16Some are like the seeds sown on rocky ground. They hear the word and at once receive it with joy.
  11. Luke 5:38Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.
  12. John 3:3Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
  13. 2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
  14. 2 Corinthians 3:18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
  15. 2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
  16. Galatians 6:15For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything. What counts is a new creation.
  17. Ephesians 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
  18. Revelation 21:5And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”

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