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A Promise of Restoration

Ezekiel 11:20

In 11 translations

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.
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
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.
LSV
So that they walk in My statutes, || And keep My judgments, and have done them, || And they have been to Me for a people, || And I am to them for God.
YLT
So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.
DBY
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.Elohim
DRC
That they may walk in my commandments, and keep my judgments, and do them: and that they may be my people, and I may be their God.
GNV
That they may walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements, and execute them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
JPS
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.
LXXE
that they may walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

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Original-language editions

WLC
לְמַ֨עַן֙ בְּחֻקֹּתַ֣י יֵלֵ֔כוּ וְאֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י יִשְׁמְר֖וּ וְעָשׂ֣וּ אֹתָ֑ם וְהָיוּ־לִ֣י לְעָ֔ם וַאֲנִ֕י אֶהְיֶ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם לֵאלֹהִֽים׃
LXX-Br
Ὅπως ἐν τοῖς προστάγμασί μου πορεύωνται, καὶ τὰ δικαιώματά μου φυλάσσωνται καὶ ποιῶσιν αὐτὰ, καὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαὸν, καὶ ἐγὼ ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς εἰς Θεόν.

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  • Ezekiel 14:11in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”
  • Psalms 105:45that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
  • Jeremiah 30:22“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
  • Titus 2:11–12For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
  • Jeremiah 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.
  • Psalms 119:4–5You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently. Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
  • Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
  • Ezekiel 11:12Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
  • Jeremiah 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.’
  • Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  • Hosea 2:23And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”
  • Psalms 119:32I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
  • Ezekiel 36:27–28And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances. Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
  • 1 Corinthians 11:2Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.
  • Hebrews 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.
  • Ezekiel 37:27My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.

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