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Bible in Basic English

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

New American Standard Bible

For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.

King James Version

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

Holman Bible

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

International Standard Version

For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law as follows: "The person who obeys these things will find life by them."

A Conservative Version

For Moses writes in the righteousness from the law, that the man that does them will live in them.

American Standard Version

For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

Amplified

For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law [with all its intricate demands] shall live by it.

An Understandable Version

For Moses wrote [Lev. 18:5] about a person being made right with God by obeying the requirements of the law of Moses, that he would gain [never ending] life for doing this.

Anderson New Testament

For Moses describes the justification which is by the law: That the man who does these things shall live by them.

Common New Testament

For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, "The man who does those things shall live by them."

Daniel Mace New Testament

For Moses describes the justice that was to be had by the law, thus : "the man who performeth the things here required, shall have life thereby."

Darby Translation

For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them.

Godbey New Testament

For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, that the man having done this shall live in it.

Goodspeed New Testament

Moses said that anyone who carried out the uprightness the Law prescribed would find life through it.

John Wesley New Testament

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is by the law, The man who doth these things shall live by them.

Julia Smith Translation

For Moses writes the justice of the law, That the man having done these things shall live in them.

King James 2000

For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, That the man who does those things shall live by them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For Moses writes about the righteousness [that is] from the law: "The person who does [this] will live by it."

Modern King James verseion

For Moses writes of the righteousness which is of the Law, "The man who does those things shall live by them."

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Moses describeth the righteousness which cometh of the law, how that the man which doth the things of the law shall live therein.

Moffatt New Testament

Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.

Montgomery New Testament

For Moses writes concerning the righteousness of the Law, saying, The man that doeth it shall live by it.

NET Bible

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."

New Heart English Bible

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

Noyes New Testament

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the Law: "The man that hath done these things shall live by them."

Sawyer New Testament

For Moses describes the righteousness of the law, that the man that does these things shall live by them.

The Emphasized Bible

For, Moses, writeth that - as touching the righteousness that is by law, The man that hath done it , shall live thereby;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is by the law, "That the man who doeth these things shall live by them."

Twentieth Century New Testament

For Moses writes that, as for the righteousness which results from Law, 'those who practice it will find Life through it.'

Webster

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is by the law, That the man who doeth these things shall live by them.

Weymouth New Testament

Moses says that he whose actions conform to the righteousness required by the Law shall live by that righteousness.

Williams New Testament

For Moses says of the law-way to right standing with God that whoever can perform the law will live by it.

World English Bible

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

Worrell New Testament

For Moses writes that the man who did the righteousness of the law shall live thereby;

Worsley New Testament

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, "That the man who doth those things shall live by them."

Youngs Literal Translation

for Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, 'The man who did them shall live in them,'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

Μωσεύς Μωσῆς Μωΰσῆς 
Moseus 
Usage: 60

γράφω 
Grapho 
Usage: 149

δικαιοσύνη 
Dikaiosune 
Usage: 83

which is

which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

of
ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

the law
νόμος 
Nomos 
law
Usage: 179

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

the man
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
man, not tr,
Usage: 316

ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372


Usage: 0

ζάω 
Zao 
live, be alive, alive, quick, lively, not tr, , vr live
Usage: 115

by
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Devotionals

Devotionals about Romans 10:5

Context Readings

The Message Of Salvation To All

4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith. 5 For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it. 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:)

Cross References

Leviticus 18:5

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

Nehemiah 9:29

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.

Ezekiel 20:11

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

Ezekiel 20:13

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.

Ezekiel 20:21

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.

Romans 7:10

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

Galatians 3:12

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

Luke 10:27-28

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.

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