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Keep, then, my statutes and decrees, for the person who carries them out will find life[a] through them. I am the Lord.(A)

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  1. 18:5 Find life: in Dt 30:15–20 Moses sets before the people life and death. The alternatives are set out in detail in Lv 26 and Dt 28. Cf. Ez 20:11, 13, 21.

[a]Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from [the] law, “The one who does these things will live by them.”(A)

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  1. 10:5–6 The subject of the verb says (Rom 10:6) is righteousness personified. Both of the statements in Rom 10:5, 6 derive from Moses, but Paul wishes to contrast the language of law and the language of faith.