^5 (A)You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; ^(B)if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.

^11 (A)I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, ^(B)by which, if a person does them, he shall live. ¹² Moreover, I gave them ^(C)my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, ^(D)that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. ^13 (E)But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. ^(F)They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; ^(G)and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.

^(H)“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.

²⁰ and ^(A)keep my Sabbaths holy that ^(B)they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

²⁸ And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; ^(A)do this, and you will live.”

The Message of Salvation to All

⁵ For ^(A)Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that ^(B)the person who does the commandments shall live by them.

¹² But the law is not of faith, rather ^(A)“The one who does them shall live by them.”