23 Bible Verses about Seeking Life

Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life'shall preserve it.

And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever-

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;

What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good?

For, He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.

For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;

Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.

Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

And thou shalt not only while yet I live show me the lovingkindness of Jehovah, that I die not;

And behold, one came to him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and made trial of him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

And as he was going forth into the way, there ran one to him, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed.

to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:

For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.