Romans 10:5

10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”¹

Leviticus 18:5

18:5 So you must keep² my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them.³ I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:11

20:11 I gave them my statutes⁴ and revealed my regulations to them. The one⁵ who carries⁶ them out will live by them!⁷

Ezekiel 20:13

20:13 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 out⁸ my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.⁹

Ezekiel 20:21

20:21 “‘But the children¹⁰ rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys¹¹ them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out¹² my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

Luke 10:27-29

10:27 The expert¹³ answered, “Love¹⁴ the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,¹⁵ and love your neighbor as yourself.”¹⁶ 10:28 Jesus¹⁷ said to him, “You have answered correctly;¹⁸ do this, and you will live.”

10:29 But the expert,¹⁹ wanting to justify²⁰ himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 10:2

10:2 He²¹ said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest²² to send out²³ workers into his harvest.

Colossians 3:7

3:7 You also lived your lives²⁴ in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

¹sn A quotation from Lev 18:5.

²tn Heb “And you shall keep.”

³tn Heb “which the man shall do them and shall live in them.” The term for “a man, human being; mankind” (אָדָם, ’adam; see the note on Lev 1:2) in this case refers to any person among “mankind,” male or female. The expression וָחַי (vakhay, “and shall live”) looks like the adjective “living” so it is written וְחָיָה (vÿkhayah) in Smr, but the MT form is simply the same verb written as a double ayin verb (see HALOT 309 s.v. חיה qal and GKC 218 §76.i; cf. Lev 25:35).

⁴sn The laws were given at Mount Sinai.

⁵tn Heb “the man.”

⁶tn Heb “does.”

⁷tn The wording and the concept is contained in Lev 18:5 and Deut 30:15-19.

⁸tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

⁹tn Heb “to bring them to an end.”

¹⁰tn Heb “sons.”

¹¹tn Or “carries them out.”

¹²tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

¹³tn Grk “And he”; the referent (the expert in religious law, shortened here to “the expert”) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

¹⁴tn Grk “You will love.” The future indicative is used here with imperatival force (see ExSyn 452 and 569).

¹⁵sn A quotation from Deut 6:5. The fourfold reference to different parts of the person says, in effect, that one should love God with all one’s being.

¹⁶tn This portion of the reply is a quotation from Lev 19:18. The verb is repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁷tn Grk “And he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

¹⁸sn Jesus commends the reply (you have answered correctly). What is assumed here, given the previous context, is that he will respond to Jesus’ message, as to love God is to respond to his Son; see v. 22.

¹⁹tn Grk “And he”; the referent (the expert in religious law, shortened here to “the expert”) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁰tn Or “vindicate.”

²¹tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

²²sn The phrase Lord of the harvest recognizes God’s sovereignty over the harvest process.

²³tn Grk “to thrust out.”

²⁴tn Grk “you also walked.” The verb περιπατέω (peripatew) is commonly used in the NT to refer to behavior or conduct of one’s life (L&N 41.11).