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If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands …
Leviticus 26:3

Yâlak (yaw-lak): Strong’s 3212:

• to go, walk, come; to go, walk, come, depart, proceed, move, go away; to die, live, manner of life

If

• a condition, requirement, or stipulation. A small word with big power.

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The New Testament is also full of “if” obediences.

Eán (eh-an) (Strong’s 1437)

• if, referring to a condition extending to its “spin-off” possibilities – i.e. that happen if the condition is actualized or is valid.

Understand the “spin-off” possibilities:

• If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
  Romans 10:9

• “If you love me, obey my commandments.”
  John 14:15

• “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
  John 13:35 (ESV)

• But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
  1 John 1:9

If is used only in the NLT and doesn’t fall under the definition about.

• If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.
  Matthew 10:39

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Obedience is the only manner of life for the me.