Romans 10:5
Good News Translation
Moses wrote this about being put right with God by obeying the Law: "Whoever obeys the commands of the Law will live."

New Revised Standard Version
Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that “the person who does these things will live by them.”

Contemporary English Version
Moses said a person could become acceptable to God by obeying the Law. He did this when he wrote, "If you want to live, you must do all the Law commands."

New American Bible
Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from [the] law, “The one who does these things will live by them.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

That the man.

Leviticus 18:5 Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

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.

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 10:27,28 He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself. . . .

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

Context
The Word Brings Salvation
4For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that believeth. 5For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it. 6But the justice which is of faith, speaketh thus: Say not in thy heart: Who shall ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down;…
Cross References
Leviticus 18:5
Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, 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 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.

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

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

Philippians 3:9
And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.

Romans 10:4
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