Ezekiel 44:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Thus says the Lord God: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.

Cross References

Psalm 24:3

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place?

Psalm 50:16

But to the wicked God says, “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?

Psalm 93:5

Your decrees are very sure; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore.

Exodus 12:48

If an alien who resides with you wants to celebrate the Passover to the Lord, all his males shall be circumcised; then he may draw near to celebrate it; he shall be regarded as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it;

Ezekiel 44:7

in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant with all your abominations.

Joel 3:17

So you shall know that I, the Lord your God, dwell in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.

Leviticus 26:41

so that I in turn was hostile to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if, then, their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

Zechariah 14:21

and every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and use them to boil the flesh of the sacrifice. And there shall no longer be traders in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.

Mark 16:16

The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.

Deuteronomy 23:4

because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey out of Egypt and because they hired against you Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.