23 Bible Verses about Seeking Life

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

And Jehovah God saith, 'Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' --

yea, he casteth out the man, and causeth to dwell at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubs and the flame of the sword which is turning itself round to guard the way of the tree of life.

'See, I have set before thee to-day life and good, and death and evil,

'I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed,

Who is the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?

for 'he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live, And it is so; Jehovah, God of Hosts, is with you, as ye said.

For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live,

Seek ye Jehovah, and live, Lest He prosper as fire against the house of Joseph, And it hath consumed, And there is no quencher for Beth-El.

Let Reuben live, and not die, And let his men be a number.

And Esther the queen answereth and saith, 'If I have found grace in thine eyes, O king, and if to the king it be good, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request;

And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life.

And the king hath risen, in his fury, from the banquet of wine, unto the garden of the house, and Haman hath remained to seek for his life from Esther the queen, for he hath seen that evil hath been determined against him by the king.

and not only while I am alive dost thou do with me the kindness of Jehovah, and I die not,

And lo, one having come near, said to him, 'Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?'

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, 'Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

And as he is going forth into the way, one having run and having kneeled to him, was questioning him, 'Good teacher, what may I do, that life age-during I may inherit?'

And a certain ruler questioned him, saying, 'Good teacher, what having done -- shall I inherit life age-during?'

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.

to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!