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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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And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever 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.
Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For 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 authorities--all 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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then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
And behold, a man came up to him, saying, "Teacher, what good deed 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 would enter life, keep the commandments."
But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
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 in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever 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 you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me."
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible 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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So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood."
For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the LORD shall be cut off from his people.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,
And she said to them, "Go into the hills, or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three days until the pursuers have returned. Then afterward you may go your way."
Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD by eating with the blood." And he said, "You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here."
I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
"For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.
They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD,
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORDin the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness.
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer.
Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?"
"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 be anxious, 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 those who find it are few.
For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
For whoever would 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 would 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 would enter life, keep the commandments."
And everyone 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 will 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 brothers, you did it to me.'
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
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 time, houses 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 time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
And as for what 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 there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.
For whoever would 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 care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'
And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.' And he divided his property between them.
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing 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. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever 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 will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
And this is eternal life, that they 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 mankind life and breath and everything.
For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free 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.
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people 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 to 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 authorities--all things were created through him and for him. And 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 your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of 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 with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. 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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then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."