'Life' in the Bible

Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live {forever}. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves!

The one 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 profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

The thief {comes only} so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have [it] abundantly.

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

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Because of this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take possession of it again.

And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish {forever}, and no one will seize 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 loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So [the things] that I say, just as the Father said to me, thus I say."

Peter said to him, "Lord, why am I not able to follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!"

Jesus replied, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I say to you, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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

just as you have given him authority over all flesh, in order that he would give eternal life to them--everyone whom you have given him.

Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

but these [things] are recorded in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that [by] believing you may have life in his name.

You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with gladness with your presence.'

And you killed the originator of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses!

"Go and stand in the temple [courts] [and] proclaim to the people all the words of this life."

In his humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his {descendants}? For his life was taken away from the earth."

And [when they] heard these [things], they became silent and praised God, saying, "Then God has granted the repentance [leading] to life to the Gentiles also!"

Both Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly [and] said, "It was necessary [that] the word of God be spoken first to you, since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life! Behold, we are turning to the Gentiles!

And [when] the Gentiles heard [this], they began to rejoice and to glorify the word of the Lord. And all those who were designated for eternal life believed.

nor is he served by human hands [as if he] needed anything, [because] he himself gives to everyone life and breath and everything.

But Paul went down [and] threw himself on him, and putting his arms around [him], said, "Do not be distressed, for his life is in him."

But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.

And looking intently at the Sanhedrin, Paul said, "Men [and] brothers, I have lived my life in all good conscience before God to this day."

"Now all the Jews know my manner of life from [my] youth, that had taken place from the beginning among my [own] people and in Jerusalem,

And now I urge you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life from among you, but only of the ship.

to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life,

For if, [while we] were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, by much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

For if by the trespass of the one [man], death reigned through the one [man], much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

Consequently therefore, as through one trespass [came] condemnation to all people, so also through one righteous deed [came] justification of life to all people.

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

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.

For that [death] he died, he died to sin once and never again, but that [life] he lives, he lives to God.

But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit [leading] to sanctification, and its end [is] eternal life.

For the compensation due sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And I was alive once, apart from the law, but [when] the commandment came, sin sprang to life

and I died, and this commandment which [was] to [lead to] life was found with respect to me to [lead to] death.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

For the mindset of the flesh [is] death, but the mindset of the Spirit [is] life and peace,

But if Christ [is] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin, but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!"

For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?

who risked their own necks for my life, for which not only I am thankful, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all [things] [are] yours,

If {we have put our hope} in Christ in this life only, we are of all people most pitiable.

Foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

But I call upon God [as] witness against my life, that [in order to] spare you, I did not come again to Corinth.

to those on the one hand an odor from death to death, [and] to those on the other hand a fragrance from life to life. And who [is] qualified for these [things]?

who also makes us adequate [as] servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

always carrying around the death of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

For we who are alive [are] continually being handed over to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.

So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.

For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened {for this reason, that} we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that [life] I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

because the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death.

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

because on account of the work of Christ he came near to the point of death, risking his life in order that {he might make up for your inability to serve me}.

Yes, I ask also you, true yokefellow, help them, who struggled along with me in the gospel with both Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names [are] in the book of life.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, [who is] your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

But because of this I was shown mercy, in order that in me foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate his total patience, for an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.

on behalf of kings and all those who are in authority, in order that we may live a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

For the training of the body is {somewhat} profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, [because it] holds promise for the present life and for the [life] to come.

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

I command you, in the sight of God who gives life to all [things] and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

storing up for themselves a good foundation for the future, in order that they may take hold of [what is] truly life.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of life which [is] in Christ Jesus,

but has now been disclosed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought to light life and immortality through the gospel,

No one who serves as a soldier is entangled in the activities of [everyday] life, so that he may please the one who enlisted [him].

But you have faithfully followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

in the hope of eternal life which God, who does not lie, promised before eternal ages,

so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God--he remains a priest for all time.

who has become [a priest] not according to a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you; {considering the outcome of their way of life}, imitate their faith.

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

[because you] know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold,

Husbands, in the same way live with [your wives] {knowledgeably}, as with the weaker female vessel, showing [them] honor as fellow heirs also of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and [his] lips must not speak deceit.

because his divine power has bestowed on us all [things] [that are] necessary for life and godliness, through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence of character,

and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched, concerning the word of life--