Romans 10:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: "The person who does these things will live by them."

New Living Translation
For Moses writes that the law’s way of making a person right with God requires obedience to all of its commands.

English Standard Version
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.

Berean Study Bible
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

New American Standard Bible
For Moses writes of the righteousness that is based on the Law, that the person who performs them will live by them.

NASB 1995
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.

NASB 1977
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law shall live by that righteousness.

Amplified Bible
For Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on law [with all its intricate demands] shall live by it.

Christian Standard Bible
since Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

Contemporary English Version
Moses said a person could become acceptable to God by obeying the Law. He did this when he wrote, "If you want to live, you must do all the Law commands."

Good News Translation
Moses wrote this about being put right with God by obeying the Law: "Whoever obeys the commands of the Law will live."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Moses writes about receiving God's approval by following his laws. He says, "The person who obeys laws will live because of the laws he obeys."

International Standard Version
For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law as follows: "The person who obeys these things will find life by them."

NET Bible
For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

New King James Version
For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.”

King James 2000 Bible
For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, That the man who does those things shall live by them.

New Heart English Bible
For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

World English Bible
For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

American King James Version
For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which does those things shall live by them.

American Standard Version
For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

A Faithful Version
For Moses wrote concerning the righteousness that comes through the law, "The man who has practiced those things shall live by them."

Darby Bible Translation
For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them.

English Revised Version
For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

Webster's Bible Translation
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is by the law, That the man who doeth these things shall live by them.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For Moses thus describeth the righteousnes which is of the Lawe, That the man which doeth these things, shall liue thereby.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For Moyses writeth, of the ryghteousnesse which is of the lawe, howe that the man which doth those thinges, shall lyue by them.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Moses wryteth of ye righteousnes which commeth of the lawe, that the man which doth ye same, shal lyue therin.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Moses describeth the rightewesnes which cometh of ye lawe howe that the man which doth the thinges of the lawe shall lyve therin.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for Moses describes the righteousness that [is] of the Law, that, “The man who did them will live in them,”

Berean Literal Bible
For Moses writes of the righteousness that is of the Law that "The man having done these things will live by them."

Young's Literal Translation
for Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, 'The man who did them shall live in them,'

Smith's Literal Translation
For Moses writes the justice of the law, That the man having done these things shall live in them.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For Moses writes that of the justice that is from out of the law, that man which having practiced them will live in them.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For Moses wrote, that the justice which is of the law, the man that shall do it, shall live by it.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And Moses wrote, about the justice that is of the law, that the man who will have done justice shall live by justice.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Moses wrote in this way of the righteousness which is in The Written Law: “Whoever shall do these things shall live in them.”

Lamsa Bible
For Moses writes of the righteousness of the law thus: Whoever shall do these things shall live by them.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For Moses describes the justification which is by the law: That the man who does these things shall live by them.

Godbey New Testament
For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, that the man having done this shall live in it.

Haweis New Testament
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is by the law, ?That the man who doeth these things shall live by them.?

Mace New Testament
For Moses describes the justice that was to be had by the law, thus: "the man who performeth the things here required, shall have life thereby."

Weymouth New Testament
Moses says that he whose actions conform to the righteousness required by the Law shall live by that righteousness.

Worrell New Testament
For Moses writes that the man who did the righteousness of the law shall live thereby;

Worsley New Testament
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, "That the man who doth those things shall live by them."
















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