Ezra 10:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

Make confession

Do his

Hebrews 13:21

Separate

Ezra 9:1

Nehemiah 13:3

2 Corinthians 6:17

And from the

Deuteronomy 7:3

1 Corinthians 2:12

General references

Nehemiah 10:30

Bible References

Make confession

"'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done. Do not hide it from me."

I acknowledged my sin to you. I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

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.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Do his

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

For thus says the LORD, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

make you complete in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen.

Separate

Now when these things were completed, the leaders approached me and said, "The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

Therefore, "'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

And from the

neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

General references

and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;