Isaiah 26:2
26:2 Open the gates so a righteous nation can enter –
one that remains trustworthy.
Isaiah 35:8
35:8 A thoroughfare will be there –
it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not travel on it;
it is reserved for those authorized to use it –
fools will not stray into it.
Isaiah 60:21
60:21 All of your people will be godly;
they will possess the land permanently.
I will plant them like a shoot;
they will be the product of my labor,
through whom I reveal my splendor.
Ezekiel 44:9
44:9 This is what the sovereign
Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary.
Nahum 1:15
Proclamation of the Deliverance of Judah
1:15 (2:1) Look! A herald is running on the mountains!
A messenger is proclaiming deliverance:
“Celebrate your sacred festivals, O Judah!
Fulfill your sacred vows to praise God!
For never again will the wicked Assyrians invade you,
they have been completely destroyed.”
Revelation 21:27
21:27 but
nothing ritually unclean
will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable
or practices falsehood,
but only those whose names
are written in the Lamb’s book of life.