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

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)

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

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)