'Live' in the Bible

but did not live with her until she had given birth to a son. The child's name he called JESUS.

"It is written," replied Jesus, "'It is not on bread alone that a man shall live, but on whatsoever God shall appoint.'"

They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted in mockery, "Long live the King of the Jews!"

and besought Him with many entreaties. "My little daughter," he said, "is at the point of death: I pray you come and lay your hands upon her, that she may recover and live."

Is not this the carpenter, Mary's son, the brother of James and Joses, Jude and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?" So they turned angrily away.

Salt is a good thing, but if the salt should become tasteless, what will you use to give it saltness? Have salt within you and live at peace with one another."

for they have all contributed out of what they could well spare, but she out of her need has thrown in all she possessed--all she had to live on."

and went on to salute Him with shouts of "Long live the King of the Jews."

Live lives which shall prove your change of heart; and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.

"It is written," replied Jesus, "'It is not on bread alone that a man shall live.'"

But what did you go out to see? A man wearing luxurious clothes? People who are gorgeously dressed and live in luxury are found in palaces.

Here, on landing, He was met by one of the townsmen who was possessed by demons--for a long time he had not put on any garment, nor did he live in a house, but in the tombs.

"A right answer," said Jesus; "do that, and you shall live."

Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell, do you suppose they had failed in their duty more than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem?

For from what they could well spare they have all of them contributed to the offerings, but she in her need has thrown in all she had to live on."

"In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."

As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate--for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever."

"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;

Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

"Thereupon he left Chaldaea and settled in Haran till after the death of his father, when God caused him to remove into this country where you now live.

He adopted a crafty policy towards our race, and oppressed our forefathers, making them cast out their infants so that they might not be permitted to live.

"Alarmed at this question, Moses fled from the country and went to live in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.

but that in every nation those who fear Him and live good lives are acceptable to Him.

He caused to spring from one forefather people of every race, for them to live on the whole surface of the earth, and marked out for them an appointed span of life and the boundaries of their homes;

For it is in closest union with Him that we live and move and have our being; as in fact some of the poets in repute among yourselves have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'

Until they heard this last statement the people listened to Paul, but now with a roar of disapproval they cried out, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He ought not to be allowed to live."

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see here the man about whom the whole nation of the Jews made suit to me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.

but I proceeded to preach first to the people in Damascus, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judaea, and to the Gentiles, that they must repent and turn to God, and live lives consistent with such repentance.

When the natives saw the creature hanging to his hand, they said to one another, "Beyond doubt this man is a murderer, for, though saved from the sea, unerring Justice does not permit him to live."

Upon our arrival in Rome, Paul received permission to live by himself, guarded by a soldier.

For in the Good News a righteousness which comes from God is being revealed, depending on faith and tending to produce faith; as the Scripture has it, "The righteous man shall live by faith."

No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.

But, seeing that we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him;

Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we are under obligation that we should live by their rule.

For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily habits to death, you will live.

Moses says that he whose actions conform to the righteousness required by the Law shall live by that righteousness.

If you can, so far as it depends on you, live at peace with all the world.

If we live, we live to the Lord: if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

for it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall make confession to God.'"

To the rest it is I who speak--not the Lord. If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, let him not send her away.

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband--if he consents to live with her, let her not separate from him.

If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.

Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.

and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

as obscure persons, and yet are well known; as on the point of death, and yet, strange to tell, we live; as under God's discipline, and yet we are not deprived of life;

I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.

Finally, brethren, be joyful, secure perfection of character, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace. And then God who gives love and peace will be with you.

As soon as I saw that they were not walking uprightly in the spirit of the Good News, I said to Peter, before them all, "If you, though you are a Jew, live as a Gentile does, and not as a Jew, how can you make the Gentiles follow Jewish customs?

for it is by the Law that I have died to the Law, in order that I may live to God.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me; and the life which I now live in the body I live through faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself up to death on my behalf.

It is evident, too, that no one can find acceptance with God simply by obeying the Law, because "the righteous shall live by faith,"

and the Law has nothing to do with faith. It teaches that "he who does these things shall live by doing them."

caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ--it is by grace that you have been saved--

I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received--

Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,

And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.

Live and act as sons of Light--for the effect of the Light is seen in every kind of goodness, uprightness and truth--

Therefore be very careful how you live and act. Let it not be as unwise men, but as wise.

"so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth."

For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

But since to live means a longer stay on earth, that implies more labour for me--and not unsuccessful labour; and which I am to choose I cannot tell.

Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, in order that, whether I come and see you or, being absent, only hear of you, I may know that you are standing fast in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder to shoulder for the faith of the Good News.

I know both how to live in humble circumstances and how to live amid abundance. I am fully initiated into all the mysteries both of fulness and of hunger, of abundance and of want.

As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;

and imploring you to live lives worthy of fellowship with God who is inviting you to share His own Kingship and glory.

Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live them more and more truly.

so as to live worthy lives in relation to outsiders, and not be a burden to any one.

For we hear that there are some of you who live disorderly lives and are mere idle busybodies.

including kings and all who are in high station, in order that we may live peaceful and tranquil lives with all godliness and gravity.

Yet a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.

Press these facts upon them, so that they may live lives free from reproach.

Faithful is the saying: "If we died with Him, we shall also live with Him;

and will keep up a make-believe of piety and yet live in defiance of its power. Turn away from people of this sort.

And indeed every one who is determined to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

But as for you, you must exercise habitual self-control, and not live a self-indulgent life, but do the duty of an evangelist and fully discharge the obligations of your office.

training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,

And let our people too learn to set a good example in following honest occupations for the supply of their necessities, so that they may not live useless lives.

By people who live on milk I mean those who are imperfectly acquainted with the teaching concerning righteousness.

But it is by faith that My righteous servant shall live; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no pleasure in him."

Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?

Keep on praying for us; for we are sure that we have clear consciences, and we desire to live nobly in every respect.

Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that."

Live honourable lives among the Gentiles, in order that, although they now speak against you as evil-doers, they may yet witness your good conduct, and may glorify God on the day of reward and retribution.

The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.

Married men, in the same way, live with your wives with a clear recognition of the fact that they are weaker than you. Yet, since you are heirs with them of God's free gift of Life, treat them with honour; so that your prayers may not be hindered.

For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

But if we live in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.

The man who professes to be continuing in Him is himself also bound to live as He lived.

The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.

For it is an intense joy to me when brethren come and bear witness to your fidelity to the truth--that you live in obedience to the truth.

For this reason be glad, O Heaven, and you who live in Heaven! Alas for the earth and the sea! For the Devil has come down to you; full of fierce anger, because he knows that his appointed time is short."

And I saw another angel flying across the sky, carrying the Good News of the Ages to tell to every nation, tribe, language and people, among those who live on the earth.

The nations will live their lives by its light; and the kings of the earth are to bring their glory into it.