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

However if they confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors and the treacherous things they did to oppose me,

Joshua said to Achan: My son, give glory to Jehovah God of Israel and confess to him. Tell me now what you have done. Do not hide it from me.

I confessed my sins to you, and I did not cover up my guilt. I decided to confess them to you, O Jehovah. Then you forgave all my sins.

The man who covers his sins will not be blessed; but whoever confesses and leaves them will have mercy.

Admit that you have done wrong! You have rebelled against Jehovah your God. You have given yourself to foreign gods under every large tree. You have not obeyed me,' says Jehovah.

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! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.

For Jehovah says: To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me. They hold fast to my covenant.

Do not be conformed to this world (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement). But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.

Walk worthily of God, fully pleasing him. Bear fruit in every good work, and increase in the knowledge (Greek: epignosis: full discernment, recognition) of God.

make you perfect (mature) in every good thing. May you do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Separate

After these things were done, the captains came to me and said: The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands. They have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people.

Therefore come out from among them and be separate (set off) (severed from them) (excluded from them), said Jehovah. Do not touch the unclean thing and I will receive you. (Isaiah 52:11) (Jeremiah 51:45)

And from the

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God. This is so we might know the things that are freely given to us from God.

General references

That way we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;