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

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

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

¹⁷ “Why ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. But to answer your question—if you want to receive eternal life, keep^[a] the commandments.”

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]

⁴ For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given.^[a] As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.

¹⁹ Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses, and to show that the entire world is guilty before God.

⁴³ Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt.”

“That’s right,” Jesus said.

³⁴ Realizing how much the man understood, Jesus said to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God.” And after that, no one dared to ask him any more questions.