Tree of Life Version
Ezekiel 18:31
31Cast off from you all your transgressions that you have committed. Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel?
Ezekiel 18:31 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
- New International Version (NIV)Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?
Context of Ezekiel 18:31
29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of Adonai is unfair!’ House of Israel, are My ways not fair? Is it not your ways that are unfair? 30“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, each one according to his ways.” It is a declaration of Adonai. “Return, and turn away from all your transgressions, so they would not be a stumbling block of iniquity for you. Cast off from you all your transgressions that you have committed. Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, house of Israel? 32For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“so return, and live!”
Read all of Ezekiel 18Ezekiel 18:31 word by word
הַשְׁלִ֣יכוּ מֵעֲלֵיכֶ֗ם אֶת־כָּל־פִּשְׁעֵיכֶם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֣ם בָּ֔ם וַעֲשׂ֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם לֵ֥ב חָדָ֖שׁ וְר֣וּחַ חֲדָשָׁ֑ה וְלָ֥מָּה תָמֻ֖תוּ בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Cast awayשָׁלַךְshâlak · to throwH7993
- from you all your transgressionsפֶּ֫שַׁעpesha‛ · transgressionH6588
- whereby ye have transgressedפָּשַׁעpâsha‛ · to transgressH6586
- and makeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
- you a newחָדָשׁchâdâsh · newH2319
- heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
- spiritרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
- for why will ye dieמוּתmûth · to dieH4191
- O houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: householdH1004
- of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
Cross-references for Ezekiel 18:31
- Ezekiel 20:7I said to them, ‘Each of you must throw away every detestable thing from his eyes, and not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Adonai your God.’
- Psalms 34:14Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking treachery.
- Isaiah 1:16“Wash and make yourselves clean. Put away the evil of your deeds from before My eyes. Cease to do evil.
- Isaiah 30:22You will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your metal images covered with gold. You will throw them away like a menstrual cloth. You will say, “Be gone!”
- Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous one his thoughts, let him return to Adonai, so He may have compassion on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
- Romans 8:13For if you live according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Ruach you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
- Ephesians 4:22With respect to your former lifestyle, you are to lay aside the old self corrupted by its deceitful desires,
- Colossians 3:5Therefore, put to death what is earthly in you—sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed—for that is idolatry.
- James 1:21So put away all moral filth and excess of evil and receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
- 1 Peter 1:14Like obedient children, do not be shaped by the cravings you had formerly in your ignorance.
- 1 Peter 2:1So get rid of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all lashon ha-ra .
- 1 Peter 4:2As a result, he lives the rest of his time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
- Ezekiel 11:19Then I will give them one heart. I will put a new Spirit within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
- Ezekiel 36:26Moreover I will give you a new heart. I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the stony heart from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
- Psalms 51:10Let me hear joy and gladness, so the bones You crushed may rejoice.
- Jeremiah 32:39I will give them one heart and one way, so they may fear Me forever; for their good and for their children after them.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 18:31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 31Cast away - With a holy violence, dash away every transgression and incentive to it. Make you a new heart - Call upon God for it, and he will give it: for as sure as you earnestly call on God through Christ to save you, so surely you shall be saved; and the effect will so speedily follow, that God is pleased to attribute that in some sort to yourselves, which is done by his grace alone; because ye earnestly call upon him for it, come in the right way to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 30-32Verses 30-32 The Lord will judge each of the Israelites according to his ways. On this is grounded an exhortation to repent, and to make them a new heart and a new spirit. God does not command what cannot be done, but admonishes us to do what is in our power, and to pray for what is not. Ordinances and means are appointed, directions and promises are given, that those who desire this change may seek it from God.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 30-32This chapter ends with a strong appeal to the people of Israel. God calls them to turn back to him and live. It was not too late for them to repent. They could turn from their sins and receive forgiveness. God promised to give them a new heart and a new spirit (Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26). A new heart and a new spirit mean an inner change. God would change their thoughts and desires. He would do this for all who turned from their rebellion and came to him with…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 30-3230-32. As God is to judge them "according to their ways" (Pr 1:31), their only hope is to "repent"; and this is a sure hope, for God takes no delight in judging them in wrath, but graciously desires their salvation on repentance. I will judge you--Though ye cavil, it is a sufficient answer that I, your Judge, declare it so, and will judge you according to My will; and then your cavils must end. Repent--inward conversion (Re 2:5). In the Hebrew there is a…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- 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
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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