Israel · New heart, new spirit
Ezekiel 36:25-32
Ezekiel · ~586 BC · Status: Disputed · Evidence weight: 60%
“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. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”
King James Version · the opening — all 8 verses are below
God's new-covenant promise to cleanse with water, give a new heart, and put His Spirit within — a foundational text for regeneration, baptism, and the gift of the Spirit.
Read the whole passage — all 8 verses (KJV)
36:25Then 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.
36:26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
36:27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
36:28And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
36:29I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
36:30And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
36:31Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
36:32Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
Fulfillment References
John 3:5 Acts 2:38 Jeremiah 31:33 Titus 3:5
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalWater and Spirit together — 'born of water and of the Spirit' (John 3:5) — fulfilled in Acts 2:38: baptism in Jesus' name and the gift of the Holy Ghost, the one God cleansing and indwelling His people.
JewishGod's promise to purify and renew Israel for His name's sake, giving a new heart and Spirit — central to the hope of national and spiritual restoration.
CatholicRead of baptismal regeneration and the gift of the Spirit; water and new heart fulfilled in the sacramental new birth.
ProtestantA cornerstone of regeneration — God's sovereign cleansing and gift of a new heart by the Spirit, fulfilled in the new covenant.
OrthodoxThe cleansing and indwelling Spirit, realized in baptism and the life of grace.
DispensationalPromised to restored Israel in the new covenant, fully realized in the kingdom while also applied to believers now.
AcademicScholars read this post-exilic vision of inward renewal as paralleling Jeremiah 31's new covenant, the 'heart of flesh' contrasting the 'heart of stone.'
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