Zechariah 13:1

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““On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.”

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BSBPD

““On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Zechariah 13:1 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 11:36Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.
  2. Leviticus 15:2“Say to the Israelites, ‘When any man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
  3. Numbers 19:9Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.
  4. Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
  5. Psalms 51:2Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
  6. Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
  7. Isaiah 1:16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
  8. Isaiah 12:3With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
  9. Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.
  10. Ezekiel 36:17“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity.
  11. 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.
  12. Ezekiel 36:29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.
  13. Ezekiel 47:1Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.
  14. Micah 5:12I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
  15. Zechariah 12:3On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured.
  16. Zechariah 12:7The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.
  17. Zechariah 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
  18. John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  19. John 19:34Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
  20. 1 Corinthians 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
  21. Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
  22. Titus 3:5He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
  23. Hebrews 9:13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
  24. 1 Peter 1:19but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

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