Ezekiel Chapter 20 verse 11 Holy Bible
And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
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And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.
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And I gave them my statutes, and made known unto them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them.
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And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
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I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
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And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - I gave them my statutes, etc. Ezekiel recognizes, almost in the very language of Deuteronomy 30:16-20, as fully as the writers of Psalm 19. and 119. recognized, the excellence of the Law. A man who kept that Law in its fulness would have life in its fullest and highest sense. He was beginning, however, to recognize, as Jeremiah had (lone (Jeremiah 31:31), the powerlessness of the Law to give that life without the aid of something higher. The "new covenant" was already dawning on the mind of the scholar as on that of the master.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) He shall even live in them.--Comp. Deuteronomy 30:15-20. It becomes plain, on a careful perusal of this passage, that what was required was not a mere outward, technical, and perfunctory keeping of certain definite precepts, but a living and loving obedience to God's will from the heart. The same fundamental principle of life underlies the Old Testament as the New; yet the former is justly regarded, and frequently spoken of in the New Testament, as a covenant of works, because the people were not yet sufficiently educated spiritually to be able to receive the principle of faith, and were therefore placed under a law of many definite precepts, that by keeping these with glad alacrity they might show their readiness and desire to do the Lord's will. It is in this sense that a man should live by doing the statutes of the law, and not on the ground of his thereby earning for himself salvation. But even thus, they failed miserably under the test.