Leviticus 18:4

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.”

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BSBPD

“You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Mine ordinances shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am Jehovah your God.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Leviticus 18:4 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 18:2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.
  2. Leviticus 18:26But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.
  3. Leviticus 19:19You are to keep My statutes. You shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear clothing made of two kinds of material.
  4. Leviticus 19:37You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
  5. Leviticus 20:22You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
  6. Deuteronomy 4:1Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
  7. Deuteronomy 6:1These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
  8. Psalms 105:45that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
  9. Psalms 119:4You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.
  10. Ezekiel 20:19I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
  11. Ezekiel 36:27And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
  12. Ezekiel 37:24My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
  13. Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
  14. John 15:14You are My friends if you do what I command you.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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