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]

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]

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

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

²¹ “But their children, too, rebelled against me. They refused to keep my decrees and follow my regulations, even though obedience would have given them life. And they also violated my Sabbath days. So again I threatened to pour out my fury on them in the wilderness.

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.

⁶ “Therefore, say to the people of Israel: ‘I am the Lord. I will free you from your oppression and will rescue you from your slavery in Egypt. I will redeem you with a powerful arm and great acts of judgment.

² And God said to Moses, “I am Yahweh—‘the Lord.’^[a]

A Call to Repentance

⁶ “I am the Lord, and I do not change. That is why you descendants of Jacob are not already destroyed.