Leviticus 18:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ You shall therefore keep My statutes and My ordinances which, if a man does, he shall live by them. I am the Lord. [Luke 10:25-28; Rom. 10:4, 5; Gal. 3:12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

Common English Bible

⁵ You must keep my rules and my regulations; by doing them one will live; I am the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Keep my laws and judgments; when a man does these, he shall live by them. I am the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:5 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:29

And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law, yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments but sinned against your ordinances, by the observance of which a person shall live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

Exodus 6:2

God also spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.

Exodus 6:29

the Lord said to Moses, “I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am speaking to you.”

Exodus 6:6

Say therefore to the Israelites: I am the Lord, and I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Ezekiel 18:9

follows my statutes, and is careful to observe my ordinances, acting faithfully—such a one is righteous; he shall surely live, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not observe my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live, and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make an end of them.

Ezekiel 20:21

But the children rebelled against me; they did not follow my statutes and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

Leviticus 18:6

“None of you shall approach anyone near of kin to uncover nakedness: I am the Lord.

Malachi 3:6

For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, have not perished.

Matthew 19:17

And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is one who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Luke 10:28

And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”

Romans 10:5

Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that “the person who does these things will live by them.”

Romans 7:10

and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.

Galatians 3:12

But the law does not rest on faith; on the contrary, “Whoever does the works of the law will live by them.”

Deuteronomy 30:20

loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him, for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Deuteronomy 30:6

“Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.

Deuteronomy 4:1

“So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.