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Leviticus 18:5
Leviticus 18:5 is verse 5 of Leviticus chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
Cited in Romans 10:5 and Galatians 3:12; see also Ezekiel 20:11, 13, and 21.
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 Yahweh.
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Leviticus 18:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.
4 You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
5 Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
6 None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
7 You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
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.”
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.”
Malachi 3:6“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.