Verse 10

I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

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  • Rom 10:5 : 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 You must keep my decrees and my laws, because the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.
  • Ezek 20:21 : 21 But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes, and they did not keep my ordinances to obey them, though by them a person will live. They profaned my Sabbaths, so I said I would pour out my wrath on them and unleash my anger against them in the wilderness.
  • Luke 10:27-29 : 27 The man 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 love your neighbor as yourself.' 28 Jesus said to him, 'You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.' 29 But wishing to justify himself, he asked Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?'
  • Ezek 20:11 : 11 I gave them my statutes and made known to them my ordinances, by which a person who obeys them will live.
  • Ezek 20:13 : 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and rejected my ordinances—though by them a person will live if they do them—and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness to destroy them.
  • 2 Cor 3:7 : 7 If the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not look intently at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was passing away,
  • Gal 3:12 : 12 The law is not based on faith; instead, it says, 'The person who does these things will live by them.'