⁹ Now let them put their loose ways and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will be among them for ever.

⁷ And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings;

³⁰ For this cause I will be your judge, O children of Israel, judging every man by his ways, says the Lord. Come back and be turned from all your sins; so that they may not be the cause of your falling into evil.

³¹ Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

²⁶ And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

²⁷ And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.

²⁸ And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.

²³ And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

² Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

⁵ Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

⁶ Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;

⁷ Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.

⁸ But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;

⁹ Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,