¹⁷ And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. ^(A)If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”

^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 Now it is evident that ^(A)no one is justified before God by the law, for ^(B)“The righteous shall live by faith.”^{[a] 12} But the law is not of faith, rather ^(C)“The one who does them shall live by them.” ¹³ Christ ^(D)redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ^(E)“Cursed is everyone who is hanged ^(F)on a tree”—

²⁶ He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” ²⁷ And he answered, ^(A)“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and ^(B)your neighbor as yourself.” ²⁸ And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; ^(C)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.

¹⁶ So ^(A)we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. ^(B)God is love, and ^(C)whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

^21 (A)But the children ^(B)rebelled against me. ^(C)They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths.

^(D)“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

^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.