Christian Standard Bible
Ezekiel 36:27
27I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.
Ezekiel 36:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
- New International Version (NIV)And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
Context of Ezekiel 36:27
25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. 26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will place my Spirit within you and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances. 28You will live in the land that I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God. 29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine on you.
Read all of Ezekiel 36Ezekiel 36:27 word by word
וְאֶת־רוּחִ֖י אֶתֵּ֣ן בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֗יתִי אֵ֤ת אֲשֶׁר־בְּחֻקַּי֙ תֵּלֵ֔כוּ וּמִשְׁפָּטַ֥י תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ וַעֲשִׂיתֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And I will putנָתַןnâthan · to give: putH5414
- my spiritרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
- withinקֶ֫רֶבqereb · entrails: amongH7130
- you, and causeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
- you to walkיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
- in my statutesחֹקchôq · statute: decreeH2706
- and ye shall keepשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: carefulH8104
- my judgmentsמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941
Cross-references for Ezekiel 36:27
- Ezekiel 37:14I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I am the Lord. I have spoken, and I will do it. This is the declaration of the Lord.’”
- Ezekiel 39:29I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
- Proverbs 1:23If you respond to my warning, then I will pour out my spirit on you and teach you my words.
- Isaiah 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants and my blessing on your offspring.
- Isaiah 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children, from now on and forever,” says the Lord.
- Joel 2:28After this I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions.
- Zechariah 12:10“Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for him as one weeps for a firstborn.
- Luke 11:13If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
- Romans 8:9You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.
- 1 Corinthians 3:16Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
- Galatians 5:5For we eagerly await through the Spirit, by faith, the hope of righteousness.
- Ephesians 1:13In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
- 1 Peter 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
- 1 John 3:24The one who keeps his commands remains in him, and he in him. And the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he has given us.
- Ezekiel 27:24They were your merchants in choice garments, cloaks of blue and embroidered materials, and multicolored carpets, which were bound and secured with cords in your marketplace.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 36:27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27And I will put my Spirit within you - To keep the heart of flesh alive, the feeling heart still sensible, the loving heart still happy. I will put my Spirit, the great principle of light, life, and love, within you, to actuate the new spirit, and to influence the new affections and passions; that the animal spirit may not become brutish, that the mental powers become not foolish. I will put my Spirit within you, so that as the new spirit may influence the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-38Verses 25-38 Water is an emblem of the cleansing our polluted souls from sin. But no water can do more than take away the filth of the flesh. Water seems in general the sacramental sign of the sanctifying influences of the Holy Ghost; yet this is always connected with the atoning blood of Christ. When the latter is applied by faith to the conscience, to cleanse it from evil works, the former is always applied to the powers of the soul, to purify it from…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 27-28The spirit of God would bring life and light from darkness and chaos (see Genesis 1:2). This would give people a new ability to follow God's rules and regulations. In the past, God's Spirit empowered individuals for specific tasks in service to the Lord (see Judges 3:10; 1 Samuel 16:13). In the future, God's Spirit would empower more people to live holy lives (see Joel 2:28–29). These renewed people would live in Israel, making it suitable for God's…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. my spirit--(Eze 11:19; Jr 32:39). The partial reformation at the return from Babylon (Ezr 10:6, &c.; Ne 8:1-9:38) was an earnest of the full renewal hereafter under Messiah.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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