Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
Cross-reference
In Ezekiel 20:21, the same phrase recurs but the children rebel — showing Israel's consistent failure to obey the life-giving statutes.
Ezekiel 33:15 echoes 'statutes of life' and the promise that the doer shall live—same covenant principle.
Ezekiel 18:9 repeats the same formula: keeping God's statutes leads to living—a consistent theme in Ezekiel.
Galatians 3:12 also quotes Leviticus 18:5 to contrast law and faith, using the same formula.
Leviticus 18:5 is the original source of the 'do them and live' formula that Ezekiel quotes here.
Romans 10:5 quotes the same Leviticus 18:5 principle, contrasting law-righteousness with faith.
Luke 10:28 records Jesus affirming the same principle — do the law and live — echoing Leviticus 18:5.
Psalm 147:19 declares God 'declares his word, his statutes and rules to Israel' — same giving of law as in Ezekiel.
Nehemiah 9:13 explicitly states God gave 'right rules and true laws, good statutes' at Sinai — directly matching the giving in Ezekiel.
Deuteronomy 4:8 praises the righteous statutes God gave Israel — the same gift of laws that Ezekiel records as life-giving.
Nehemiah 9:29 directly quotes the phrase 'if a person does them, he shall live by them' from this passage.
In Matthew 19:17, Jesus says keeping the commandments leads to eternal life—a clear NT echo of the life-from-obedience principle.
In Deuteronomy 6:25, doing the commandments is called righteousness—the same principle that doing God's statutes brings life.
Romans 2:13 states that doers of the law are justified—aligning with Ezekiel's 'do them and live' principle.
Romans 7:10 recalls the commandment that 'promised life' but brought death—contrasting the intended effect with the actual outcome under sin.
Romans 9:4 lists the giving of the law among Israel's privileges, echoing God's gift of statutes that bring life here.
Deuteronomy 4:1 uses the same call to do statutes to live — a direct parallel to this life-giving principle.
Hosea 8:12 laments that God's many laws are treated as foreign—contrasting God's gift of life-giving statutes with Israel's rejection.
Psalm 147:20 contrasts Israel's unique knowledge of God's rules with other nations — building on the giving of statutes here.
Nehemiah 9:14 adds that God made known the Sabbath and commandments — expanding on the statutes given here.
Romans 3:2 says the Jews were entrusted with God's oracles — the same statutes given here, now seen as a privilege and responsibility.