God’s Word Translation
Leviticus 18:4
4Follow my rules, and live by my standards. I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 18:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.
- New International Version (NIV)You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the Lord your God.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the Lord your God.
Context of Leviticus 18:4
2“Tell the Israelites: I am the Lord your God. 3You used to live in Egypt. Don’t live the way the Egyptians do. I am bringing you to Canaan. Don’t live the way the Canaanites do. Never live by their standards. Follow my rules, and live by my standards. I am the Lord your God. 5Live by my standards, and obey my rules. You will have life through them. I am the Lord. 6“Never have sexual intercourse with anyone related to you by blood. I am the Lord.
Read all of Leviticus 18Leviticus 18:4 word by word
אֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֧י תַּעֲשׂ֛וּ וְאֶת־חֻקֹּתַ֥י תִּשְׁמְר֖וּ לָלֶ֣כֶת בָּהֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Leviticus 18:4
- Leviticus 18:26Live by my standards, and obey my rules. Neither you nor any foreigner should ever do any of these disgusting things.
- Leviticus 19:37“Obey all my laws and all my rules, and live by them. I am the Lord.”
- Leviticus 20:22“If you carefully obey all my laws and my rules, the land I am bringing you to live in will not vomit you out.
- Deuteronomy 4:1Israel, listen to the laws and rules I am about to teach you. Obey them so that you will live and be able to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord God of your ancestors is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 6:1These are the commands, laws, and rules the Lord your God commanded me to teach you. Obey them after you enter the land and take possession of it.
- Psalms 105:45so that they would obey his laws and follow his teachings. Hallelujah!
- Psalms 119:4You have commanded that your guiding principles be carefully followed.
- Ezekiel 20:19I am the Lord your God. Live by my laws. Obey my rules and follow them.
- Ezekiel 36:27I will put my Spirit in you. I will enable you to live by my laws, and you will obey my rules.
- Ezekiel 37:24“ ‘My servant David will be their king, and all of them will have one shepherd. They will live by my rules, and they will obey my laws.
- Luke 1:6Zechariah and Elizabeth had God’s approval. They followed all the Lord’s commands and regulations perfectly.
- John 15:14You are my friends if you obey my commandments.
Commentaries on Leviticus 18:4
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-5judgments … statutes: The Bible anticipated that courts would interpret God's laws for different situations. These interpretations became case laws, known as mishpatim in Hebrew (see “statutes” in Leviticus 10:11). Paul refers to these verses in Romans 10:5 and Galatians 3:12, where he contrasts living "based on faith” or “by the law.”Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-302-4. I am the Lord your God--This renewed mention of the divine sovereignty over the Israelites was intended to bear particularly on some laws that were widely different from the social customs that obtained both in Egypt and Canaan; for the enormities, which the laws enumerated in this chapter were intended to put down, were freely practised or publicly sanctioned in both of those countries; and, indeed, the extermination of the ancient Canaanites is…Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Leviticus 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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