Bible Memory verse
Acts 3:19
…refreshment rather than misery. Turning is the road back to relief. Isaiah 55:7 2 Chronicles 7:14 Ezekiel 18:30-32 Lord, I turn from what I have been excusing. Wipe it out and refresh me.
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Bible verses (3)
Bible Memory verse
Jeremiah 31:33
…the gospel makes: not a lower standard, but a changed heart. Jeremiah 31:31-32 Hebrews 8:10 Ezekiel 36:26-27 Lord, write your law on my heart, and not only in my memory.
Bible Memory verse
Psalms 51:10
…new, which is why this psalm has taught sinners to pray for three thousand years. Psalms 51:1-3 Ezekiel 36:26 2 Corinthians 5:17 God, do in me what I cannot do in myself. Create a clean heart where excuses used to live.
Bible studies (16)
Chapter study
John 15: The Vine, the Branches, and the Friends of God
…pictured as God's vine, in Psalm 80, in Isaiah 5, in Jeremiah 2 and Ezekiel 15, almost always in the context of a vineyard that disappointed its owner. Jesus does not claim to be a better version of that vine. He claims…
Chapter study
Psalm 23: The LORD Our Shepherd
…Psalm 23:3 The paths of righteousness are walked for his name's sake. Ezekiel 36:22 God acts for the honour of His own name rather than for His people's merit, a pattern this phrase draws on. Read the reason clause…
Chapter study
Romans 8: No Condemnation, No Defeat, No Separation
…53:10 It pleased the Lord to bruise him, standing behind verse 32. Ezekiel 36:27 I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. The promise verses 4 and 9 fulfil. Mark 14:36 Abba, Father, the cry…
Bible study
Psalm 23: The Shepherd Who Goes Before You
…the believer down. Isaiah 40:11 - He tends his flock like a shepherd Ezekiel 34:11-16 - I myself will search for my sheep John 10:11 - I am the good shepherd Hebrews 13:20 - The great shepherd of the sheep 1 Peter 5:4 -…
Dig Deeper
Why does David call God his shepherd rather than his king?
…with the work he did himself before Samuel ever came looking for him. Ezekiel 34:11-12 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out…
Verse study
I am the true vine (John 15:1)
…planted as a noble seed could turn into a degenerate and foreign plant. Ezekiel 15 goes further still, arguing that the wood of an unfruitful vine is useless for anything at all, fit only for fuel. Every Jewish listener…
Verse study
The LORD is my shepherd (Psalm 23:1)
…48:15 Jacob's confession that God had shepherded him all his life. Ezekiel 34:11 God announces that He will do the shepherding Himself. John 10:14 'I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep.' The claim is made in the…
Devotional
A Law Written on the Heart
…the one Israel broke, the covenant made at the exodus from Egypt. Ezekiel 36:26-27 A new heart and a new spirit, God's Spirit put within them so they walk in his statutes, the same promise from another prophet. Hebrews…
Devotional
Have Mercy on Me
…David asks for a clean heart because he cannot make one himself. Ezekiel 36:26 promises a new heart and a new spirit, a promise the New Testament ties to what Christ accomplishes in those who trust him.
Devotional
He Will Dwell with Them
…6:7 at the exodus, Jeremiah 31:33 in the promise of a new covenant, and Ezekiel 37:27 describing the future temple. John gathers this recurring promise and places it at the very end of the Bible's story as its final…
Devotional
Like a Mustard Seed
…kingdoms and empires under whose shade nations found shelter, such as Ezekiel 17:23 and Daniel 4:12. Jesus applies that grand imagery to something that started as small as a mustard seed. Mark 4:26-29 The parable of the…
Devotional
New Heart, New Spirit
Ezekiel 36:26-27 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you, and…
Devotional
The Compassion of Christ
…Numbers 27:17 uses it when Israel needs a leader after Moses, and Ezekiel 34 uses it to condemn leaders who fed themselves. Matthew is telling his readers that the crowds are in the condition Ezekiel described, and the…
Devotional
The Law Written on the Heart
…an internal covenant that changes the one who keeps it. This matches Ezekiel 36:26-27, prophesied in similar exile conditions: a new heart, a new spirit, and God's Spirit causing them to walk in His statutes. Hebrews…
Devotional
The LORD Is My Shepherd
…than wander, and rest in what You have promised to provide. Amen. Ezekiel 34 pictures the failure of Israel's human shepherds, the kings and leaders who fed themselves rather than the flock, and God declares in verse 15…
52 Week Journey
Week 42: The Prophets
…for the slain of the daughter of my people! WEB New Heart, New Spirit Ezekiel promises a transformation the law could not produce. Ezekiel 36:26-27 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within…
Bible topics (11)
Book of the Bible
The Book of Ezekiel
Ezekiel has 48 chapters.
Biblical concept
Born again
…points to baptism, to natural birth, or to the cleansing promised in Ezekiel 36:25-26. What is clear across the passage is that the Spirit, not water alone, is the one who gives the new birth. John 3:5 Ezekiel 36:25 If…
Biblical concept
Living Water
…described showing up in person and making the same offer again. Ezekiel's vision of water flowing from the temple, growing from a trickle to a river too deep to cross, and Revelation's picture of the river of the water…
Biblical concept
New Creation
…whose city and temple had every appearance of being finished for good. Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. 2 Corinthians 5:17 If any man be in Christ, he is a new…
Word and phrase
Repentance
…the land of their captivity and turn back to God with all their heart. Ezekiel 18:30-32 Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, that iniquity may not be your ruin. Mark 1:15 Repent, and believe in the gospel.…
Biblical concept
Responsibility
…is to rule over it. The pull is acknowledged and the duty is still his. Ezekiel 18:20 states the principle at the level of law: the soul who sins shall die, the son will not bear the guilt of the father, and the father…
Biblical concept
Shepherd
…the previous verse becomes the tenderness of a shepherd carrying lambs. Ezekiel 34:11-16 God takes the flock back from the shepherds who fed themselves. John 10:11 The shepherd who does not run, because He lays down His…
Biblical concept
Son of Man
This is the title Jesus uses of himself more than any other. In Ezekiel the phrase simply means a human being, but in Daniel 7 one like a son of man comes with the clouds and receives an everlasting kingdom from the…
Biblical concept
The Good Shepherd
…through fear and loss than almost any other in the Old Testament. Ezekiel 34:11 God promises to search for his sheep himself, after indicting Israel's leaders for feeding themselves instead of the flock. John 10:11…
Biblical concept
The Holy Spirit
…OT Genesis 1:2 The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. OT Ezekiel 36:27 I will put my Spirit within you. OT Joel 2:28 I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. NT John 14:26 The Comforter, whom the Father…
Biblical concept
The Vine
…planting, pruning, propping and the disposal of cut wood. Isaiah 5:1-6, Ezekiel 15:2-4 Scripture describes the same practices: digging, planting, pruning, and vine wood fit only for burning. Psalms Psalm 80 pleads for…
Questions and answers (10)
Bible question
How do I recognize false teachers?
…the Lord, the same pattern of flattering words Peter later describes. Ezekiel 13:10 Ezekiel pictures false prophets daubing a weak wall with untempered mortar, covering real danger with a false sense of safety, a vivid…
Bible question
What does it mean to be born again?
…Nobody arranges their own birth, and that is the point he is making. Ezekiel 36:26-27 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and…
Bible question
What does the Bible teach about heaven?
…was not the end of the story. John's vision draws heavily on Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. The new heaven and new earth of Revelation 21:1 echoes Isaiah 65:17. The river and tree of life echo Ezekiel 47 and Genesis 2.…
Bible question
What is repentance in the Bible?
…most often translated repent means to turn back, as in Joel 2:12 and Ezekiel 18:30-32. It is aimed at God, not only away from sin 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Turned to God from idols to serve. A turn away from a sin that is not…
Bible question
What is sin?
…is the central consequence, and Romans 6:23 names death as the wage. Ezekiel 18:4 says the soul that sins will die, which is why the gospel is not merely improvement. Sin can be forgiven, fully 1 John 1:9 Confession…
Bible question
What must I do to be saved?
…the Pharisee, goes home justified simply for crying out for mercy. Ezekiel 36:26-27 God promises to give a new heart and put his Spirit within, doing in a person what they cannot do in themselves. Mark 10 proves…
Bible question
Who is God?
…clause about visiting iniquity on later generations is later qualified Ezekiel 18:20 says the son will not bear the father's iniquity. Read together, Exodus 34 describes how sin's consequences run through families,…
Bible question
Who is the Holy Spirit?
…word covers wind, breath and spirit, which is why Genesis 1:2 and Ezekiel 37:9-14 can hold all three ideas together. Jesus draws on the same range in John 3:8. Meaning must be taken from each context rather than from…
Bible question
Why did Jesus come to earth?
…happened, a rich man welcomed and changed. Seek is the shepherd's word, Ezekiel 34:16, and lost describes a condition rather than a mood. Mark 10:45 For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to…
Bible question
Why is Jesus called the Son of God?
…than a moment of origin. ben adam Hebrew son of man, a human being In Ezekiel it is how God addresses the prophet, and in Psalm 8:4 it simply means a man. Daniel 7:13 uses it of a figure who comes with the clouds and…
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