You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.
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 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.
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.
Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
the Lord said to Moses, “I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.”
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