Leviticus 18:5 - English Standard Version 2016 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 You must keep my rules and my regulations; by doing them one will live; I am the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them. I am the Lord. |
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 rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
the Lord said to Moses, “I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.”
Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully—he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord God.
I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.
“None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”
And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”
loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
“And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.