⁵ For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

⁵ You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.

²⁹ and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

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 keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

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.

¹¹ I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

¹⁰ The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

¹² The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

²⁷ He 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."

²⁸ He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."