Ezekiel 18:31

“Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed, &c.] As unprofitable and pernicious, to be abhorred and abstained from, and to be cast off, as loads and burdens upon them. Kimchi interprets it of the punishment of their sins, which might be cast off, or escaped, by repentance; perhaps it is best to interpret it of the casting away of their idols, by which they transgressed; (see <262007>Ezekiel 20:7,8); and make you a new heart and a new spirit; which the Lord elsewhere promises to give, and he does give to his own elect; (see Gill on “<261119>Ezekiel 11:19”); and if here to be understood of a regenerated heart and spirit, in which are new principles of light, life,…”

“Cast away from you--for the cause of your evil rests with yourselves; your sole way of escape is to be reconciled to God (Eph 4:22-23). make you a new heart--This shows, not what men can do, but what they ought to do: what God requires of us. God alone can make us a new heart (Eze 11:19; Eze 36:26-27). The command to do what men cannot themselves do is designed to drive them (instead of laying the blame, as the Jews did, elsewhere rather than on themselves) to feel their own helplessness, and to seek God's Holy Spirit (Psa 51:11-12). Thus the outward exhortation is, as it were, the organ or instrument which God uses for conferring grace. So we may say with AUGUSTINE, "Give what thou…”

“Make you a new heart - Suffer me to do it in you. Ezekiel 18:32”

“Cast: Eze 20:7; Psa 34:14; Isa 1:16, Isa 1:17, Isa 30:22, Isa 55:7; Rom 8:13; Eph 4:22-32; Col 3:5-9; Jam 1:21; Pe1 1:14, Pe1 2:1, Pe1 4:2-4 make: Eze 11:19, Eze 36:26; Psa 51:10; Jer 32:39; Mat 12:33, Mat 23:26; Act 3:19; Rom 8:13; Rom 12:2; Jam 4:8; Pe1 1:22 for why: Eze 33:11; Deu 30:15, Deu 30:19; Pro 8:36; Jer 21:8, Jer 27:15; Act 13:46 Ezekiel 18:32”