I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”
And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
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.
He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel. He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the Lord!
You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments, and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.
Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
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.
Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,
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