Luke 10:28
New International Version
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

New Living Translation
“Right!” Jesus told him. “Do this and you will live!”

English Standard Version
And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”

Berean Standard Bible
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”

Berean Literal Bible
And He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this and you will live."

King James Bible
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

New King James Version
And He said to him, “You have answered rightly; do this and you will live.”

New American Standard Bible
And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.”

NASB 1995
And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE.”

NASB 1977
And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; DO THIS, AND YOU WILL LIVE.”

Legacy Standard Bible
And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE.”

Amplified Bible
Jesus said to him, “You have answered correctly; DO THIS habitually AND YOU WILL LIVE.”

Christian Standard Bible
“You’ve answered correctly,” he told him. “Do this and you will live.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“You’ve answered correctly,” He told him. “Do this and you will live.”

American Standard Version
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yeshua said to him, “You have said correctly; do this and you shall live.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus said, "You have given the right answer. If you do this, you will have eternal life."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to him: Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

English Revised Version
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus told him, "You're right! Do this, and life will be yours."

Good News Translation
"You are right," Jesus replied; "do this and you will live."

International Standard Version
Jesus told him, "You have answered correctly. 'Do this, and you will live.'"

Literal Standard Version
And He said to him, “You answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”

Majority Standard Bible
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”

New American Bible
He replied to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.”

NET Bible
Jesus said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live."

New Revised Standard Version
And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”

New Heart English Bible
He said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

Weymouth New Testament
"A right answer," said Jesus; "do that, and you shall live."

World English Bible
He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

Young's Literal Translation
And he said to him, 'Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.'

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Context
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
27He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” 28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.” 29But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”…

Cross References
Leviticus 18:5
Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 6:24
And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.

Proverbs 19:16
He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.

Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances--for the man who does these things will live by them.

Matthew 19:17
"Why do you ask Me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments."

Romans 7:10
So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.


Treasury of Scripture

And he said to him, You have answered right: this do, and you shall live.

Thou hast.

Luke 7:43
Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.

Mark 12:34
And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

this.

Leviticus 18:5
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.

Nehemiah 9:29
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Ezekiel 20:11,13,21
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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Luke 10
1. Jesus sends out at once seventy disciples to work miracles, and to preach;
13. pronounces a woe against certain cities.
17. The seventy return with joy;
18. he shows them wherein to rejoice,
21. and thanks his Father for his grace;
23. magnifies the happy estate of his church;
25. teaches the lawyer how to attain eternal life,
30. and tells the parable of the good Samaritan;
38. reprimands Martha, and commends Mary her sister.














(28) Thou hast answered right.--The acceptance of the lawyer's answer as theoretically true was part of the method of our Lord's teaching. The words that followed, "This do, and thou shalt live," were those of a Prophet who knew what was in the man, and read the secrets of his heart, and saw how little love was to be found there. In the command "This do . . . ," however, our Lord does something more than accommodate Himself to the legal point of view. Love was really life, at once its source and its manifestation, if only the love were true, and the test of its being true was action.

Verse 28. - This do, and thou shalt live. The learned Jew was evidently confounded at the Galilaean Rabbi's first answer referring him to the sacred Mosaic Law. His perplexity is increased by the Lord's quiet repartee when he had rehearsed the two duties, to his God and his neighbour, "This do, and thou shalt live." It seems as though the clever, unfriendly critic of Jesus of Nazareth now forgot the hostile purpose with which he stood up to question, and, really conscience-stricken, willing to justify himself, in real good faith put the query which called out the famous parable.

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Greek
“You have answered
ἀπεκρίθης (apekrithēs)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

correctly,”
Ὀρθῶς (Orthōs)
Adverb
Strong's 3723: Rightly. Adverb from orthos; in a straight manner, i.e. correctly.

[Jesus] said.
Εἶπεν (Eipen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

“Do
ποίει (poiei)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

this
τοῦτο (touto)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

you will live.”
ζήσῃ (zēsē)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 2198: To live, be alive. A primary verb; to live.


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