22 Bible Verses about Life Through Keeping The Law
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Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors.
he taught me, and he said to me: "Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.
Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
And you solemnly admonished them in order to return them to your law, but they behaved presumptuously and did not obey your commandments. They sinned against your ordinances -- those by which an individual, if he obeys them, will live. They boldly turned from you; they rebelled and did not obey.
I gave them my statutes and revealed my regulations to them. The one who carries them out will live by them!
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.
"'But the children rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.
So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.
For this is no idle word for you -- it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess."
for they are life to those who find them and healing to one's entire body.
I also call on you to love the Lord your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."
But the law is not based on faith, but the one who does the works of the law will live by them.
He returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, committing no iniquity. He will certainly live -- he will not die.
I also gave them decrees which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.
You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,
Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.
and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!
