Romans 10:5

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For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.

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  • Lev 18:5 : 5 So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
  • Neh 9:29 : 29 And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.
  • Ezek 20:13 : 13 But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.
  • Ezek 20:21 : 21 But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.
  • Ezek 20:11 : 11 And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.
  • Rom 7:10 : 10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
  • Gal 3:12 : 12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.
  • Luke 10:27-28 : 27 And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself. 28 And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life.

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  • Gal 3:10-12
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    10 For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.

    11 Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.

    12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

  • 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12 All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

    13 For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

    14 For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

  • 39 And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

  • 21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

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

  • Rom 3:20-21
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    20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

    21 But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

  • 6 But the righteousness which is of faith says these words, Say not in your heart, Who will go up to heaven? (that is, to make Christ come down:)

  • 11 And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.

  • 28 And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life.

  • 17 For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

  • 19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • 28 A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:

  • 5 But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,

  • 25 And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.

  • Jas 2:10-12
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    10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

    11 For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

    12 Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

  • 3 Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

  • 8 Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?

  • 16 Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.

  • 28 For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

    31 But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

  • 20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • 10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

  • 4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

  • 9 And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.

  • 19 And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.

  • Rom 2:26-27
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    26 If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

    27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

  • 16 Being conscious that a man does not get righteousness by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we had faith in Christ Jesus, so that we might get righteousness by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law will no flesh get righteousness.

  • 5 He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

  • 15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • 7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

  • 8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:

  • 25 But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

  • 13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • 6 And Moses said, This is what the Lord has said you are to do; and you will see the glory of the Lord.

  • 13 When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him.

  • 10 Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

  • 17 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • 11 Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses.

  • 14 For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.