40 Bible Verses about Living For God

For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

If we live, we live to the Lord: if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

In Him was Life, and that Life was the Light of men.

The man who professes to be continuing in Him is himself also bound to live as He lived.

He is not the God of dead, but of living men. You are in grave error."

Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home within you?

For all can see that you are a letter of Christ entrusted to our care, and written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the ever-living God--and not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.

And we have come to believe and know that *you* are indeed the Holy One of God."

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus;

He is not a God of dead, but of living men, for to Him are all living."

so that your lives may be worthy of the Lord and perfectly pleasing to Him, while you exhibit the results of right action of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God.

And, as for us, we know the love which God has for us, and we confide in it. God is love, and he who continues to love continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him.

And in the place where it was said to them, 'No people of Mine are you,' there shall they be called sons of the everliving God."

I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of dead, but of living men."

For this was the purpose of Christ's dying and coming to life--namely that He might be Lord both of the dead and the living.

yet *we* have but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things and for whose service we exist, and but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom we and all things exist.

For not one of us lives to himself, and not one dies to himself.

"You," replied Simon Peter, "are the Christ, the Son of the ever-living God."

But, for fear I may be hindered, I now write, so that you may have rules to guide you in dealing with God's household. For this is what the Church of the ever-living God is, and it is the pillar and foundation-stone of the truth.

"I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power.

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

For in the Good News a righteousness which comes from God is being revealed, depending on faith and tending to produce faith; as the Scripture has it, "The righteous man shall live by faith."

And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

It is an awful thing to fall into the hands of the ever-living God.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has also given to the Son to have life in Himself.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.

As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?

And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, and let it be through Him that you give thanks to God the Father.

For Apostolic authority is not a thing of words, but of power.

In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News.

Now to the immortal and invisible King of the Ages, who alone is God, be honour and glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

But at the end of the three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they rose to their feet; and all who saw them were terrified.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we know the true One, and are in union with the true One--that is, we are in union with His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the Life of the Ages.

You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him.

And, since you delight in obedience, do not shape your lives by the cravings which used to dominate you in the time of your ignorance,

in hope of the Life of the Ages which God, who is never false to His word, promised before the commencement of the Ages.