For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”
Parallel translations
- KJV For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
- BSB For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
- NKJV For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.”
- NASB For Moses writes of the righteousness that is based on the Law, that the person who performs them will live by them.
- NLT For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands.
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- Lev 18:5You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.
- Neh 9:29and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
- Ezek 20:11I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.
- Ezek 20:21“‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezek 20:13“‘“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
- Gal 3:12The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”
- Rom 7:10The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
- Luke 10:27–28He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
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