Ezra 10:11

Modern English Version

Now therefore make confession to the Lord God of your fathers and do what pleases Him: Sever your relationships with the people of the land, especially from the foreign women.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:22

Then Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of the Lord. So they ate for the appointed seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God of their fathers.

Ezra 10:10

Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have acted unfaithfully by bringing home foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.

Ezra 10:12

Then all the congregation answered loudly, “As you have said to us, that we will do.

Ezra 10:3

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to sever relations with all the women and their children according to the counsel of my lord and those who tremble at the commandment of our God. May this be done in accordance with the law.

Ezra 9:1

Now when these things were done, the leaders contacted me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands. They practice the abominations of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Nehemiah 13:3

When they heard the Law, they separated from Israel all the racially mixed.

Nehemiah 9:2

The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all the foreigners and then stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

Psalm 32:5

I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not conceal. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and You forgave the iniquity of my sin.   Selah

Proverbs 28:13

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find mercy.

Isaiah 56:4

For thus says the Lord: To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose the things that please Me, and take hold of My covenant,

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:3

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

Ezekiel 18:30

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord God. Repent, and turn away from all your transgressions so that iniquity shall not be your ruin.

John 9:24

So again they called the man who was blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this Man is a sinner.”

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and complete will of God.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”

Colossians 1:10

that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, pleasing to all, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Joshua 7:19

Then Joshua said to Achan, “O my son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and give Him praise! Tell me what you have done! Do not hold back anything from me.”