22 Bible Verses about Life Through Keeping The Law

"And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

"The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers.

he taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.

keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;

And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments."

And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall 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.

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.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.

Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word.

For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess."

For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."

You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.

But the law is not of faith, rather "The one who does them shall live by them."

if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life,

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.

The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.