Bible Strands
Ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh addresses the house of Israel, promising covenant renewal after exile. The verse sits between the promise of cleansing (v. 25) and the promise of the Spirit enabling obedience (v. 27).
The words — לֵב (lev, "heart") is the object of the entire exchange; it is what God gives, removes, and replaces. בְּקִרְבְּכֶם (be.kir.be.Khem) renders literally "in your inner being," from qereb ("middle, interior"), locating the new spirit inside the person rather than above them.
The thread — Ezekiel 11:19 repeats the same stone-to-flesh exchange; Psalm 51:10 echoes the request for a renewed heart and spirit; 2 Corinthians 5:17 generalizes the pattern into "new creation."
Why it lands — Every verb in the verse is first-person divine ("I will give," "I will remove"); the reader is not asked to produce the change but to reckon with what it means that a heart of stone is treated as a removable object.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,
- Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
- Deuteronomy 30:6 The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- John 3:3 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
- 2 Corinthians 3:3 It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
- Jeremiah 32:39 I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
- Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- Revelation 21:5 And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”
- 2 Corinthians 3:18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.