Leviticus 18:5
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Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
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The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
God also told Moses, “I am the LORD.
“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
He said to him, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”