Lev 18:5
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I {am} the LORD.
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And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which {if} a man do, he shall even live in them. {shewed...: Heb. made them to know}
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which {if} a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which {if} a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I {am} the LORD: {the LORD: or, JEHOVAH}
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I {am} the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
For I {am} the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I {am} the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? {there is} none good but one, {that is}, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
For it {is} not a vain thing for you; because it {is} your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong {your} days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. {withdrew...: Heb. they gave a withdrawing shoulder}
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do {them}, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, {even} the sure mercies of David.
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which {if} a man do, he shall even live in them. {shewed...: Heb. made them to know}
And the commandment, which {was ordained} to life, I found {to be} unto death.
{If} the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit {any} of these abominations; {neither} any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he {is} just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Now these {are} the judgments which thou shalt set before them.