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.
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
Obedience is the only manner of life for the me.
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