Matthew 19:17

17 And he said to him, Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. lIf you would enter life, keep the commandments.

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Leviticus 18:5
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.

Nehemiah 9:29
And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.

Ezekiel 20:13
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.

Ezekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

Romans 10:5
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.

Galatians 3:12
But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”


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