22 Bible Verses about Life Through Keeping The Law
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"Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the ordinances that I'm teaching you to observe so you may live and go in to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is about to give you.
"Be careful to observe every command that I'm instructing you today, in order that you may live, increase, and enter and take possession of the land that the LORD promised by an oath to your ancestors.
he taught me and told me, "Let your heart fully embrace what I have to say; keep my commandments and live!
Keep my commands and you'll live. Guard my teaching as you do your eyesight.
Jesus asked him, "Why ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you want to get into that life, you must keep the commandments."
You admonished them to return to your Law, but they acted arrogantly, and would not listen to your commands. They sinned against your regulations, which if anyone obeys, he will live by them. They turned away, being stubborn and stiff-necked, and they did not listen.
where I gave them my statutes and revealed my ordinances to them, which if a person observes, he'll live by them.
"But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn't live by my statutes. They despised my ordinances, which if a person observes, he'll live by them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my anger on them and bring them to an end in the wilderness.
"But they rebelled against me. They didn't live according to my statutes, observe my ordinances, or practice them, by which a person will live. They also kept profaning my Sabbaths. So I said that I was going to pour out my anger on them and in my anger I'm going to bring about a complete end to them in the wilderness.
Keep my statutes and my ordinances, which a person is to obey in order to live in them. I am the LORD.
because they're not just empty words for you they are your very life. Through these instructions you will live long in the land that you are about to cross over the Jordan River to possess."
For they are life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.
Love the LORD your God, obey his voice, and cling to him, because he is your life even your long life so that you may live in the land that the LORD promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
You are to walk in every pathway that the LORD your God commanded you, so that life may go well for you, and so that you will prolong your days in the land that you will possess.'"
For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law as follows: "The person who obeys these things will find life by them."
But the Law has nothing to do with faith. Instead, "The person who keeps the commandments will have life in them."
returning what has been placed as collateral for a loan, paying back what he has taken, following the regulations that promote life, and committing no iniquity, he will certainly live, and not die.
So I gave them statutes that weren't good and ordinances by which they could not live.
You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.
So is the Law in conflict with the promises of God? Of course not! For if a law had been given that could give us life, then certainly righteousness would come through the Law.
and I died. I found that the very rule that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
