Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

Bible References

General references

Romans 10:5
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law [with all its intricate demands] shall live by it.
Leviticus 18:5
So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which, if a person keeps them, he shall live; I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them, which, if a man keeps, he will live.
Luke 10:27
And he replied, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
2 Corinthians 3:7
Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones [the covenant of the Law which led to death because of sin], came with such glory and splendor that the Israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, [a brilliance] that was fading,