23 Bible Verses about Seeking Life

Whoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life, shall preserve it.

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man hath become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he should 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 Cherubim, and a flaming 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 record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

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

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

For thus saith the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

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

Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.

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

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

And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath 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 kindness of the LORD, that I may not die:

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

And behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

And when he had gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

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

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

To them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immortality; eternal life:

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth to life, and few there are that find it.