Ezekiel 47:22

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

“ ‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh, then he shall do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’ ”

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

“Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.” ’ ”

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,

Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

“ ‘ “For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself.

I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, don’t you call unclean.’

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,

You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

“To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.

These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing the land.

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved.

I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

“This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

So they glorified God in me.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”