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And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
Ezekiel 36:27 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
  • KJV And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
  • NKJV I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
  • NASB And I will put My Spirit within you and bring it about that you walk in My statutes, and are careful and follow My ordinances.
  • NLT And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.

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Quick answer

God promises to put His Spirit within His people, enabling them to obey His commands. True obedience flows from the indwelling Spirit.

Overview

Beyond cleansing and a new heart, God gives His own Spirit to dwell within and empower holy living. Obedience becomes possible not by external law but by inward grace. This promise is realized at Pentecost and in every believer indwelt by the Spirit of Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 28

  • Titus 3:3–6For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
  • Heb 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Ezek 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.”
  • 1 Cor 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
  • Jer 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.
  • Prov 1:23If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
  • Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
  • Isa 44:3–4For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
  • Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • Ezek 37:14I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.’”
  • 1 Jn 3:24Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
  • Ezek 37:24My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
  • 2 Jn 1:6And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
  • Gal 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
  • Zech 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.
  • Joel 2:28–29And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
  • 2 Th 2:13But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
  • Phil 2:12–13Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
  • 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
  • Isa 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
  • Rom 8:14–16For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
  • Eph 1:13–14And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
  • Luke 11:13So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
  • Col 2:6Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
  • Gal 5:5But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness.
  • Rom 8:9You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
  • 1 Pet 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
  • 1 Jn 1:6–7If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

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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 36:27 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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