Ezekiel 11:20

Green's Literal Translation

so that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments, and do them. And they shall be to Me for a people, and I will be to them for God.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
so that they will follow my statutes, keep my ordinances, and practice them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Hebrew Names Version
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

King James Version
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.

English Standard Version
that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

New American Standard Bible
so that they may walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

New Century Version
Then they will live by my rules and obey my laws and keep them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Amplified Bible
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

World English Bible
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

Legacy Standard Bible
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

Contemporary English Version
and all my laws and teachings. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

Complete Jewish Bible
so that they will live by my regulations, obey my rulings and act by them. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Darby Translation
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.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then they will obey my laws and my commands. They will do the things I tell them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.'"

George Lamsa Translation
That they may walk in my commandments and keep my ordinances and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Good News Translation
Then they will keep my laws and faithfully obey all my commands. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Lexham English Bible
so that they may walk in my statutes, and they will keep my regulations, and they will do them, and they will be to me a people, and I myself will be to them as God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that ye maye walke in my commaundementes, and kepe myne ordinaunces, & do them: that ye maye be my people, and I youre God.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.

King James Version (1611)
That they may walke in my statutes, and keepe mine ordinances, and doe them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
That they may walke in my commaundementes, and kepe mine ordinaunces and do them, that they may be my people, and I their God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.

English Revised Version
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that thei go in my comaundementis, and kepe my domes, and do tho; and that thei be in to a puple to me, and Y be in to God to hem.

Update Bible Version
that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Webster's Bible Translation
That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

New English Translation
so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

New King James Version
that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

New Living Translation
so they will obey my decrees and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.

New Life Bible
Then they will walk in My Laws and keep them, and obey them. They will be My people, and I will be their God.

New Revised Standard
so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To the end that in my statutes, they may walk, And mine appointments, they may keep, and do them, - So shall they become my people, And l will become their God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Revised Standard Version
that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ And the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ¹⁵ Son of man, your brothers, your brothers, the men of your kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them who have said to those living in Jerusalem, Go far away from Jehovah, this land is given to us for a possession. ¹⁶ Therefore, say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Though I have sent them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the lands, yet I was to them as a little sanctuary in the countries there where they had gone. ¹⁷ So the Lord Jehovah says this: I shall gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the lands, in those where you were scattered, and I shall give to you the land of Israel. ¹⁸ And they will come there, and they will remove all its hateful things and all its abominations from it. ¹⁹ And I shall give to them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will remove the stony heart out of their flesh, and I will give them a heart of flesh, ²⁰ so that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments, and do them. And they shall be to Me for a people, and I will be to them for God. ²¹ And as to those whose heart is going after their hateful things, and also their heart is after their disgusting idols, I will give their way on their heads, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Bible Verse Review
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they may: Ezekiel 11:12, Psalms 105:45, Psalms 119:4, Psalms 119:5, Psalms 119:32, Luke 1:6, Luke 1:74, Luke 1:75, Romans 16:26, 1 Corinthians 11:2, Titus 2:11, Titus 2:12

and they: Ezekiel 14:11, Ezekiel 36:28, Ezekiel 37:27, Jeremiah 11:4, Jeremiah 24:7, Jeremiah 30:22, Jeremiah 31:33, Jeremiah 32:38, Hosea 2:23, Zechariah 13:9, Hebrews 8:10, Hebrews 11:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:6 - I am Leviticus 26:12 - will be Deuteronomy 4:1 - unto the statutes Deuteronomy 10:12 - to walk Deuteronomy 30:6 - will circumcise Deuteronomy 30:8 - General Psalms 25:9 - guide Psalms 119:1 - walk Psalms 119:36 - Incline Jeremiah 31:1 - will Jeremiah 32:39 - I Lamentations 5:21 - Turn Ezekiel 20:19 - walk Ezekiel 36:26 - the stony Ezekiel 43:11 - and do Hosea 2:1 - Ammi Micah 7:19 - subdue Zechariah 8:8 - they shall be my John 3:6 - that Acts 3:26 - in Acts 4:32 - the multitude 2 Corinthians 6:16 - I will be

Cross-References

Luke 3:35
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Salah,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That they may walk in my statutes,.... Have their conversation ordered according to the will and word of God; to which there is neither will nor power, till God gives a new heart and spirit, or works in them both to will and to do:

and keep mine ordinances, and do them; all things appertaining to religion and worship, both in public and private:

and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; it will appear by walking in the statutes of the Lord, and by keeping his ordinances, that they are his people, made willing in the day of his power to serve him; and by having covenant blessings bestowed on them, the grace of God wrought in them, his fear upon them, and new hearts and spirits given them, that he is their covenant God and Father; by this means, what under the prevalence of idolatry was hid, will now be made manifest.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Revelation 21:0. The identity of thought and language in Ezekiel, predicting the new kingdom of Israel, and in John, foretelling the kingdom of heaven, forces upon us the conclusion that the prophecy of Ezekiel has an ultimate reference to that climax which John plainly indicates.

Ezekiel 11:19

One heart - So long as the Israelites were distracted by the service of many gods, such unity was impossible; but now, when they shall have taken away the “abominations” from the land, they shall be united in heart to serve the true God.

Stony heart ... heart of flesh - The heart unnaturally hardened, and the heart reawakened to feelings proper to man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 11:20. That they may walk in my statutes — The holiness of their lives shall prove the work of God upon their hearts. Then it shall appear that I am their God, because I have done such things in them and for them; and their holy conduct shall show that they are my people. Ezekiel 36:25, &c.