Leviticus 18:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:5 —

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Romans 10:5
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
Galatians 3:12
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Luke 10:28
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
Ezekiel 20:21
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

After divers ceremonial institutions, God here returns to the enforcement of moral precepts. The former are still of use to us as types, the latter still binding as laws. We have here, 1. The sacred authority by which these laws are enacted: I am the Lord your God (Lev. 18:1, 4, 30), and I am the Lord, Lev. 18:5, 6, 21. “The Lord, who has a right to rule all; your God, who has a peculiar right to…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them--A special blessing was promised to the Israelites on condition of their obedience to the divine law; and this promise was remarkably verified at particular eras of their history, when pure and undefiled religion prevailed among them, in the public prosperity and domestic happiness enjoyed by them as…