'Life' in the Bible

saying, “Get up! Take the child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, because those who sought the child’s life are dead.”

“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.

Anyone finding his life will lose it, and anyone losing his life because of Me will find it.

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

What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

If your hand or your foot causes your downfall, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.

And if your eye causes your downfall, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, rather than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire!

Just then someone came up and asked Him, “Teacher, what good must I do to have eternal life?”

“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” He said to him. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

And everyone who has left houses, brothers or sisters, father or mother, children, or fields because of My name will receive 100 times more and will inherit eternal life.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life—a ransom for many.”

“And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Then He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.

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

For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his life?

What can a man give in exchange for his life?

And if your hand causes your downfall, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and go to hell—the unquenchable fire,

And if your foot causes your downfall, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell— [the unquenchable fire,

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

who will not receive 100 times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life—a ransom for many.”

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

Life was in Him,and that life was the light of men.

so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

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

and come out—those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever be thirsty again.

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

“I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Simon Peter answered, “Lord, who will we go to? You have the words of eternal life.

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

“Lord,” Peter asked, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You!”

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.

for You gave Him authorityover all flesh;so He may give eternal lifeto all You have given Him.

This is eternal life:that they may know You, the only true God,and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.

But these are written so that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing you may have life in His name.

You have revealed the paths of life to me;You will fill me with gladnessin Your presence.

You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

“Go and stand in the temple complex, and tell the people all about this life.”

In His humiliation justice was denied Him.Who will describe His generation?For His life is taken from the earth.

When they heard this they became silent. Then they glorified God, saying, “So God has granted repentance resulting in life even to the Gentiles!”

Then as John was completing his life’s work, he said, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the One. But look! Someone is coming after me, and I am not worthy to untie the sandals on His feet.’

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.

Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

But Paul went down, fell on him, embraced him, and said, “Don’t be alarmed, for his life is in him!”

But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

Paul looked intently at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience until this day.”

“All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem.

eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality;

in God’s sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!

Since by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone.

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.

But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification—and the end is eternal life!

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life

and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me.