Matthew 19:17

WEB

¹⁷He said to him, “Why do you call me good?^[+] No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

KJV

¹⁷And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

BSB

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.”

FBV

¹⁷“Why do you ask me what is good?” Jesus replied. “There's only one who is good. But if you want to have eternal life,^[+] then keep the commandments.”

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Extra References

Leviticus 18:5

⁵You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am the LORD.

Luke 10:26-28

²⁶He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

²⁷He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind;and your neighbor as yourself.”

²⁸He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

Galatians 3:11-13

¹¹Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”¹²The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

¹³Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Romans 10:5

⁵For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”

1 Samuel 2:2

²There is no one as holy as the LORD, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

1 John 4:16

¹⁶We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

²¹“‘“But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Nehemiah 9:29

²⁹and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

Ezekiel 20:11-12

¹¹I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them. ¹²Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Psalms 145:7-9

⁷They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness. ⁸The LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. ⁹The LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.