Leviticus 18

Treated in 7 passages across the library.

  • 18:5 Keep my statutes and my rulings. The one who does them will live by them. I am the LORD. 4
  • 18:28 Then the land will not vomit you out for making it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was there before you. 2
  • 18:4 You are to carry out my rulings and keep my statutes, living by them. I am the LORD your God. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    Obedience cites Lev 18: 4

    …given us his laws, is obedience. ‘Ye shall do my judgements, and keep mine ordinances.’ Lev 18: 4. Why does a king publish an edict, but that it may be observed? What is the rule of…

  2. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 8 — Exposition of the Moral Law cites Lev. 18:5

    …therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments; which if a man do, he shall live in them,” (Lev. 18:5), and corresponding to this the threatening, “The souls that sinneth, it shall die,”…

  3. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 17 — Christ Rightly and Properly Said to Have Merited Grace and Salvation for Us cites Lev. 18:5

    …obtain what God promised in the Law to our works: “If a man do, he shall live in them,” (Lev. 18:5). This is no less clearly taught in the discourse at Antioch, when Paul declares, “That…

  4. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    Into the Land cites Leviticus 18:28

    …“if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you” (Leviticus 18:28). Centuries later, that is exactly what happened. Mercy was open. Rahab, a Canaanite…

  5. The Big Story · Ochorus Originals

    By the Rivers of Babylon cites Leviticus 18:28

    …in chapter 13 you read God’s warning: “if you defile the land, it will vomit you out” (Leviticus 18:28). Now it had happened. One of the saddest songs in the Bible comes from these years: “By…

  6. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 14 — The Beginning of Justification cites Lev. 18:5

    …reward of certain works, but only declares, “which if a man do, he shall live in them,” (Lev. 18:5), denouncing the well-known curse against all who do not continue in all things that are…

  7. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 17 — The Promises of the Law and the Gospel Reconciled cites Lev. 18:5

    …therefore keep my statutes and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them,” (Lev. 18:5; Ezek. 20:10), will, if we stop at it, be of no avail, and will profit us not a whit more…