Ezekiel 36:25

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“I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.”

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BSBPD

“I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Then 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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 36:25 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 14:5Then the priest shall command that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.
  2. Leviticus 16:30because on this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
  3. Numbers 8:7This is what you must do to cleanse them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.
  4. Numbers 19:13Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.
  5. Psalms 51:2Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
  6. Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
  7. Psalms 51:9Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
  8. Proverbs 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
  9. Isaiah 2:18and the idols will vanish completely.
  10. Isaiah 4:4when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
  11. Isaiah 17:7In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
  12. Isaiah 52:15so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.
  13. Jeremiah 3:22“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
  14. Jeremiah 33:8And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
  15. Ezekiel 16:9Then I bathed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.
  16. Ezekiel 36:17“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity.
  17. Ezekiel 36:29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.
  18. Ezekiel 37:23They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
  19. Hosea 14:3Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
  20. Hosea 14:8O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
  21. Hosea 14:9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.
  22. Micah 5:12I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers.
  23. Zechariah 13:1“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
  24. John 3:5Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

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