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I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
Leviticus 26:12 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
  • KJV And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
  • NKJV I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
  • NASB I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
  • NLT I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.

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Quick answer

God promises to walk among His people as their God, and they will be His people. This is the heart of the covenant relationship.

Overview

The intimate language of God walking among His people recalls Eden and looks ahead to its full restoration. 'I will be your God, and you will be my people' is the covenant formula repeated throughout Scripture. Paul applies it to the church (2 Corinthians 6:16), and Revelation 21 shows its final fulfillment in the new creation.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 27

  • 2 Cor 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
  • Jer 30:22“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
  • Jer 7:23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
  • Exod 6:7I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
  • Joel 2:27Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.
  • Deut 23:14For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.
  • Heb 11:16Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
  • Exod 19:5–6Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
  • Zech 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
  • Isa 41:10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
  • Ezek 11:20so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
  • Gen 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
  • Jer 11:4which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
  • Rev 21:7The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
  • Jer 32:38They will be My people, and I will be their God.
  • Ps 50:7“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
  • 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.
  • Isa 12:2Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
  • Ezek 36:38Like the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
  • Exod 3:6Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
  • Gen 3:8Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
  • Matt 22:32‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
  • Ps 68:18–20You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
  • Gen 5:24Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.
  • Gen 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
  • Rev 2:1“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.
  • Gen 5:22And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Christ at the center

Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.

How Leviticus 26:12 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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