Leviticus 18:5
Good News Translation
Follow the practices and the laws that I give you; you will save your life by doing so. I am the LORD."

New Revised Standard Version
You shall keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
Obey them and you will live. I am the LORD.

New American Bible
Keep, then, my statutes and decrees, for the person who carries them out will find life through them. I am the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

which if a man do

Ezekiel 20:11,13,21 And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. . . .

Luke 10:28 And he said to him: Thou hast answered right. This do: and thou shalt live.

Romans 10:5 For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Galatians 3:12 But the law is not of faith: but he that doth those things shall live in them.

I am the Lord

Exodus 6:2,6,29 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord . . .

Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, and I change not: and you the sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Context
Unlawful Sexual Relations
4You shall do my judgments, and shall observe my precepts, and shall walk in them. I am the Lord your God. 5Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.6No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.…
Cross References
Matthew 19:17
Who said to him: Why askest thou me concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Luke 10:28
And he said to him: Thou hast answered right. This do: and thou shalt live.

Romans 7:10
And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

Romans 10:5
For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Galatians 3:12
But the law is not of faith: but he that doth those things shall live in them.

Leviticus 18:6
No man shall approach to her that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:1
And now, O Israel, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you.

Nehemiah 9:29
And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

Ezekiel 18:9
Hath walked in my commandments, and kept my judgments, to do truth: he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

Ezekiel 20:13
But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.

Leviticus 18:4
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