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that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 11:20 · World English Bible
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  • KJV 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.
  • BSB 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.
  • NKJV that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
  • NASB so that they may walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.
  • NLT so they will obey my decrees and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.

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Quick answer

God promises a renewed people who will obey Him from the heart, sealed by the covenant formula 'they will be my people, and I will be their God.'

Overview

This climaxes God's promise (vv. 17-20) to give Israel a new, unified heart so they will keep His law. The change is God's gift, not human achievement, anticipating the fuller new-covenant promise of 36:26-27. The covenant bond it secures is fulfilled in Christ, who by His Spirit writes the law on believers' hearts (Heb. 8:10).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • Ezek 14:11that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
  • Ps 105:45that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
  • Jer 30:22“You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
  • Titus 2:11–12For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
  • Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
  • Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: 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:
  • Ps 119:4–5You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
  • Rom 16:26
  • Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
  • Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
  • 1 Cor 11:2Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.
  • Jer 11:4which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them 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 you shall be my people, and I will be your God;
  • Ezek 36:27–28I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
  • Hos 2:23I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”
  • Ezek 11:12You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”
  • Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • Luke 1:74–75to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
  • Jer 24:7I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
  • Ezek 37:27My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  • Jer 32:38and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
  • Ps 119:32I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY

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  • VideoBibleProject — Ezekiel videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The promise of one Shepherd-King David, a new heart and new Spirit, and the river of life flowing from the temple all stream toward Christ, the good Shepherd who gives the Spirit.

How Ezekiel 11:20 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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