Leviticus 18:5

New English Translation

So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:29

And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances – those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.

Exodus 6:2

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

Exodus 6:29

he said to him, “I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you.”

Exodus 6:6

Therefore, tell the Israelites, ‘I am the Lord. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

Isaiah 55:3

Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.

Ezekiel 18:9

and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. That man is righteous; he will certainly live, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.

Ezekiel 20:21

“‘But the children rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

Leviticus 18:6

“‘No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the Lord.

Malachi 3:6

“Since, I, the Lord, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.

Matthew 19:17

He said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Luke 10:28

Jesus said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”

Romans 7:10

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

Galatians 3:12

But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.

Deuteronomy 30:20

I also call on you to love the Lord your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

Deuteronomy 4:1

Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.