Ezekiel 36:25-32
“Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean... 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. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.”
King James Version
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.
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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