Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the Lord.

King James Version

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Holman Bible

Keep My statutes and ordinances; a person will live if he does them. I am Yahweh.

International Standard Version

Keep my statutes and my ordinances, which a person is to obey in order to live in them. I am the LORD.

A Conservative Version

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am LORD.

American Standard Version

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.

Amplified

So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which, if a person keeps them, he shall live; I am the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

And ye shall observe my statutes and my judgments, by which the man that doeth them shall live: I am Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

And ye watched my laws and my judgments, which a man shall do them, and he lived in them: I am Jehovah.

King James 2000

You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And you shall observe my statutes and my regulations {by which the person doing them shall live}; I [am] Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

And you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments which, if a man do, he shall live thereby: for I am the LORD.

NET Bible

So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.

New Heart English Bible

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

Therefore shall ye observe my statutes, and my regulations, Which if the son of earth shall do them, Then shall he live in them, - I, am Yahweh.

Webster

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments: which if a man doeth, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

World English Bible

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them: I am Yahweh.

Youngs Literal Translation

and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I am Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

חקּה 
Chuqqah 
Usage: 104

and my judgments
משׁפּט 
Mishpat 
Usage: 421

if a man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

he shall live
חיי 
Chayay 
Usage: 15

References

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Law

Hastings

Context Readings

Unlawful Sexual Relations

4 I am Jehovah your God! You must obey my teachings. 5 So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the Lord. 6 Do not have sex with any of your close relatives,

Cross References

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my laws and made my rules known to them. If people obey them they will live.

Romans 10:5

Moses writes down the righteousness that is of the law. The man who has practiced those things shall live by them.

Galatians 3:12

The Law is not based on faith. He that does them will live by them.

Luke 10:28

He told him: You answered correctly, do this and you will live.

Ezekiel 20:13

But the people of Israel rebelled against me in the desert. They did not live by my laws. They rejected my rules. If people obey them, they will live. They dishonored the days to worship me. So I was going to pour out my fury on them in the desert and completely wipe them out.

Ezekiel 20:21

But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes. They were not careful to obey my ordinances. If a man obeys them, he will live. They profaned my Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Exodus 6:2

God spoke further to Moses and said to him: I am Jehovah.

Exodus 6:6

Tell the sons of Israel: 'I am Jehovah. I will bring you out from under the oppression of the Egyptians. I will free you from slavery! I will rescue you with my powerful arm and with mighty acts of judgment.'

Exodus 6:29

Jehovah said to Moses: I am Jehovah! Speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you.

Malachi 3:6

I am Jehovah. I have not changed! You are the sons of Jacob. You have not yet been destroyed!

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