'Life' in the Bible

Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to Him, requesting Him to come and save the life of his slave.

As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches, and pleasures of life, and produce no mature fruit.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will save it.

Just then an expert in the law stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Then He said to His disciples: “Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.

For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

“‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Whoever tries to make his life secure will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

A ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

who will not receive many times more at this time, and eternal life in the age to come.”

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly