Ezekiel 18:31
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?
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Study Note
God's command 'cast away from you all your transgressions and make you a new heart and a new spirit, for why will you die, O house of Israel?' is the ethical corollary to Ezekiel 36:26's divine promise of a new heart — the same new heart is both commanded here and promised there. The juxtaposition of divine command and divine gift regarding the new heart generates a productive theological tension: human response is required (cast away, make yourselves) and divine action is promised (I will give you a new heart). This both/and structure anticipates Paul's similar tension in Philippians 2:12–13: 'work out your salvation... for God is at work in you both to will and to do.' The passionate question 'why will you die?' echoes 18:23, 32 and gives the chapter its pastoral tone: judgment is not desired but is the tragic consequence of persistent refusal of the available alternative.
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Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?
Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?
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