Leviticus 18:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.”
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“Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 18:5 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 6:2God also told Moses, “I am the LORD.
- Exodus 6:6Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
- Exodus 6:29He said to him, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- Deuteronomy 30:20and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
- Nehemiah 9:29You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.
- Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
- Ezekiel 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
- Malachi 3:6“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
- Luke 10:28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
- Romans 10:5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
- Galatians 3:12The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
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