¹¹ There I gave them my decrees and regulations so they could find life by keeping them.

Salvation Is for Everyone

⁵ For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands.^[a]

⁸ And what great nation has decrees and regulations as righteous and fair as this body of instructions that I am giving you today?

⁵ If you obey my decrees and my regulations, you will find life through them. I am the Lord.

¹² This way of faith is very different from the way of law, which says, “It is through obeying the law that a person has life.”^[a]

¹³ “But the people of Israel rebelled against me, and they refused to obey my decrees there in the wilderness. They wouldn’t obey my regulations even though obedience would have given them life. They also violated my Sabbath days. So I threatened to pour out my fury on them, and I made plans to utterly consume them in the wilderness.

² Yes, there are great benefits! First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God.^[a]

²⁸ “Right!” Jesus told him. “Do this and you will live!”