¹⁰ I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life^(A) actually brought death.

The Greater Glory of the New Covenant

⁷ Now if the ministry that brought death,^(A) which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory,^(B) transitory though it was,

⁵ Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”^[a](A)

⁵ Keep my decrees and laws,^(A) for the person who obeys them will live by them.^(B) I am the Lord.

¹² The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.”^[a](A)

²⁷ He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’^[a];^(A) and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b]”^(B)

²⁸ “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”^(C)

²⁹ But he wanted to justify himself,^(D) so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

²¹ “‘But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws,^(A) of which I said, “The person who obeys them will live by them,” and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger^(B) against them in the wilderness.^(C)

¹¹ I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live.^(A)

¹³ “‘Yet the people of Israel rebelled^(A) against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws^(B)—by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths.^(C) So I said I would pour out my wrath^(D) on them and destroy^(E) them in the wilderness.^(F)