Leviticus 18:5 · KJV
“Ye 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
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I {am} the LORD your God.
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover {their} nakedness: I {am} the LORD. {near...: Heb. remainder of his flesh}
Leviticus 18 — Context
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
4Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I {am} the LORD your God.
5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I {am} the LORD.
6None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover {their} nakedness: I {am} the LORD. {near...: Heb. remainder of his flesh}
7The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she {is} thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Cross References
Galatians 3:12
And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in 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. {shewed...: Heb. made them to know}
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 20:13
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which {if} a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
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.
Luke 10:28
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
Exodus 6:2
And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I {am} the LORD: {the LORD: or, JEHOVAH}
Exodus 6:6
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I {am} the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
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