Leviticus 18:5 “Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things w…”

Leviticus 18:5

Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

World English Bible

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am the LORD.

American Standard Version

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

Ye shall keepe therefore my statutes, and my iudgements, which if a man doe, he shall then liue in them: I am the Lord.

Darby Translation

And ye shall observe my statutes and my judgments, by which the man that doeth them shall live: I am Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I [am] Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.

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Cross references

“which if a man do”

Galatians 3:12 Ezekiel 20:11 Romans 10:5 Ezekiel 20:13 Ezekiel 20:21 Luke 10:28

Galatians 3:12 · BSB

The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Ezekiel 20:11 · BSB

And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.

Romans 10:5 · BSB

For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Ezekiel 20:13 · BSB

Yet 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.…

Ezekiel 20:21 · BSB

But 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…

Luke 10:28 · BSB

“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”

“I am the Lord”

Exodus 6:2 Exodus 6:6 Exodus 6:29 Malachi 3:6

Exodus 6:2 · BSB

God also told Moses, “I am the LORD.

Exodus 6:6 · BSB

Therefore 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 6:29 · BSB

He said to him, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”

Malachi 3:6 · BSB

“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.

6None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

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