Romans 10:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that “the person who does these things will live by them.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ For Moses writes that the man who [can] practice the righteousness (perfect conformity to God's will) which is based on the Law [with all its intricate demands] shall live by it. [Lev. 18:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

Common English Bible

⁵ Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And Moses wrote, about the justice that is of the law, that the man who will have done justice shall live by justice.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ For Moses wrote, that the justice which is of the law, the man that shall do it, shall live by it.

Romans 10:5 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.

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 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 18:5

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

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 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.

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.