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In the Bible, is either natural, Ge 3:17; spiritual, that of the renewed soul, Ro 8:6; or eternal, a holy and blissful immortality, Joh 3:36; Ro 6:23. Christ is the great Author of natural life, Col 1:16; and also of spiritual and eternal life; Joh 14:6; 6:47. He has purchased these by laying down his own life; and gives them freely to his people, Joh 10:11,28. He is the spring of all their spiritual life on earth, Ga 2:20; will raise them up at the last day; and make them partakers for ever of his own life, Joh 11:25; 14:19.
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He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has everlasting life.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live;
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
A little while longer, and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authoritiesall things were created through him and for him.
Easton
generally of physical life (Ge 2:7; Lu 16:25, etc.); also used figuratively (1) for immortality (Heb 7:16); (2) conduct or manner of life (Ro 6:4); (3) spiritual life or salvation (Joh 3:16-17,18,36); (4) eternal life (Mt 19:16-17; Joh 3:15); of God and Christ as the absolute source and cause of all life (Joh 1:4; 5:26,39; 11:25; 12:50).
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Now behold, one came up and said to him, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to have eternal life?" And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments."
But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus received evil things; but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.
that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. read more. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He who believes in him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself,
You search the Scriptures, because in them you think that you have eternal life; and these are they that testify of me.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live;
And I know that his command is eternal life. Whatever I say, therefore, I say just as the Father has told me."
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Hastings
LIFE
I. In the OT
The term 'life' in English Version is used, with a few unimportant exceptions, as the equivalent of one or other of two Heb. expressions: (1) chai, or mostly in plur. chayyim; (2) nephesh. The Septuagint makes a general distinction between these two, by usually rendering the former as z
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"You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.'
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and few are those who find it.
For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and few are those who find it.
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father's will.
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her deeds."
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments."
And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments."
And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.
And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.'
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, to the fire that shall never be quenched.
And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
who will not receive a hundredfold now in this timehouse and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come, eternal life.
who will not receive a hundredfold now in this timehouse and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come, eternal life.
And the ones that fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
And a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years and could not be healed by anyone,
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
And he said to them, "Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'
And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of property that falls to me.' So he divided his living between them.
All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. The water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has everlasting life.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything.
For if, by the one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.)
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authoritiesall things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
The older men are to be temperate, serious, sensible, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.'
through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Morish
Life is that by which a created being enjoys the place in which the Creator has set it. God breathed into man's nostrils 'the breath of life; and man became a living soul.' Ge 2:7. Sin having come in, this life is forfeited and God claims it, saying, "surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man." Ge 9:5. This instituted capital punishment for murder, which law has never been rescinded or altered.
Scripture recognises a difference between 'life' in a moral sense and 'existence,' as seen in the passage, "What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?" Ps 34:12. Here is a man desiring life, desiring to enjoy life. This answers the objection of those who, wishing to deny eternal punishment, say that 'living for ever' is only spoken of the Christian, as in Joh 6:51,58. True, but many other scriptures prove that the wicked will have an eternal existence.
Man, in his natural state, is regarded as morally dead in sins, and as needing to be quickened by the power of God; or as living in sins and needing to accept death in order to live in Christ, as in the Epistle to the Romans.
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I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh."
This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread will live for ever."