5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
5 Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the Lord.
5 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
5 Keep my decrees and laws: The person who obeys them lives by them. I am God.
5 You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
5 If you obey my decrees and my regulations, you will find life through them. I am the Lord .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 18:5
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Unlawful marriages and fleshly lusts.
Here is a law against all conformity to the corrupt usages of the heathen. Also laws against incest, against brutal lusts, and barbarous idolatries; and the enforcement of these laws from the ruin of the Canaanites. God here gives moral precepts. Close and constant adherence to God's ordinances is the most effectual preservative from gross sin. The grace of God only will secure us; that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace. Nor does He ever leave any to their hearts' lusts, till they have left him and his services.