I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
- BSB I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.
- NKJV I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.
- NASB Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you.
- NLT I will cleanse you of your filthy behavior. I will give you good crops of grain, and I will send no more famines on the land.
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Quick answer
God promises to save His people from uncleanness and provide abundant grain without famine. Spiritual cleansing comes with material blessing.
Overview
God pledges both moral salvation from sin and the restoration of fruitful provision. Deliverance from uncleanness and freedom from famine display His total care. Such blessing pictures the fullness of life found in Christ, who satisfies every true need.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Hos 2:21–23And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
- Matt 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
- John 1:7–9The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
- Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
- Rom 11:26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
- Hos 14:4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
- Ezek 36:25Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
- Jer 33:8And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
- Matt 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
- Hos 14:2Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
- Ezek 34:27–29And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
- Hos 14:8Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
- Joel 3:21For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
- Ezek 36:8–9But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
- Zech 13:1In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
- Rom 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
- Ps 105:6O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
- Mic 7:19He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
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