Reference: Life
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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 thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
He believing in the Son has eternal life: and he not believing the Son shall not see life, but the anger of God remains upon him.
Truly, truly, I say to you, he believing in me has eternal life.
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
And I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
Jesus said to her, I am the rising up, and life: he believing in me, though he die, shall live.
Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father, except by me.
Yet a little, and the world sees me no more; and ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For the thought of the flesh, death; and the thought of the Spirit, life and peace.
I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.
For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by 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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And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.
And, behold, one having come said to him, Good teacher, what good shall I do, that I might have eternal life? And he said to him, Why sayest thou me good? None is good except one, God; but if thou wouldst come into life, keep the commands.
But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus likewise evil things: and now here is he comforted, and thou art tormented.
That every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life. read more. For God sent not his Son into the world that he judge the world; but that the world might be saved through him. He believing in him is not judged: and he not believing has been already judged, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.
He believing in the Son has eternal life: and he not believing the Son shall not see life, but the anger of God remains upon him.
For as the Father has life in himself, so also gave he to the Son to have life in himself;
Search the writings; for ye think in them to have eternal life: and these are they testifying of me.
Jesus said to her, I am the rising up, and life: he believing in me, though he die, shall live.
And I know that his command is life eternal: therefore what I speak, as the Father said to me, so I speak.
Therefore were we buried with him by immersion into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should 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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And God will form great sea. monsters and every living soul creeping, which the waters bred abundantly according to their kind, and every bird of wing according to its kind: and God will see that it is good.
And Jehovah God will cause to grow out of the earth every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of lives in the midst of the garden, and the tree to know good and evil.
A law forever to your generations in all your dwellings, all the fat and all the blood, ye shall not eat
For every one eating the fat from the cattle that will be brought from it, a sacrifice to Jehovah, and the soul eating was cut off from its people.
I called to witness against you this day the heavens and the earth, the life and the death I gave before thee, the blessing and the curse: and choose upon life, so that thou shalt live, thou and thy seed:
I called to witness against you this day the heavens and the earth, the life and the death I gave before thee, the blessing and the curse: and choose upon life, so that thou shalt live, thou and thy seed:
And she will say to them, Go to the mountain, lest they pursuing shall meet with you; and hide yourselves there three days till they pursuing turn back: and afterward ye shall go to your way.
And the priests lifting up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah will stand firm upon the dry land that in the midst of Jordan, and all Israel passing over upon the dry till all the peoples finished to pass over Jordan.
And they will announce to Saul, saying, Behold, the people sinning against Jehovah to eat upon the blood. And he will say, Ye acted treacherously: roll to me this day a great stone.
I melted away; I shall not live forever: desist from me, for my days are vanity.
For there is hope for a tree if it shall be cut down, and it shall yet revive, and its suckers shall not cease.
If a man die, shall he live? All the days of my warfare I will wait till the coming of my change.
And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.
Who the man desiring life, loving days, to see good?
Thy justice as the mountains of God; thy judgments a great deep: man and cattle thou wilt save, O Jerhovah
Thy justice as the mountains of God; thy judgments a great deep: man and cattle thou wilt save, O Jerhova
They shall satiate from the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt give them to drink the torrent of thy delights.
She is a tree of life to all holding upon her: and happy he holding her fast
For he finding me, the finding of life, and he shall bnng forth acceptance from Jehovah.
A fountain of life the mouth of the just one: and violence shall cover the mouth of the unjust
And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.
For the living know they shall die: and the dead know not any thing, and no more to them a reward; for their remembrance was forgotten.
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
And a rod shall come forth from the stock of Jesse, and a sprout shall blossom from his roots:
I said, I shall not see Jah Jah, in the land of the living: I shall no more behold man with the inhabitants of the place of rest.
For not hades shall praise thee, death celebrate: they going down to the pit shall not hope for thy truth.
And many sleeping in the earth of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, and these to reproach and eternal abhorrence.
How the beasts groaned! the herds of oxen wept, for no pasture to them; also the flocks of sheep were laid waste.
Also the beasts of the field will look up to thee: for the channels of waters were dried up, and the fire devoured the habitations of the desert.
And he will cry out and say in Nineveh from the edict of the king and of his great ones, saying, The man and beast, the herd and flock shall not taste of anything; they shall not feed and they shall not drink water.
And shall I not spare for Nineveh the great city which there is in it more than one hundred and twenty thousand men which knew not between his right hand to his left, and many cattle?
Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill: and whoever should kill shall be subject to judgment:
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:
Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us?
For strait the gate and afflicted the way leading into life, and few are they finding it.
For strait the gate and afflicted the way leading into life, and few are they finding it.
Are not two little sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall to the earth without your Father.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinful; and wisdom has been justified from her children.
For whoever should wish to save his life shall lose it: and whoever shall lose his soul for my sake shall find it.
For whoever should wish to save his life shall lose it: and whoever shall lose his soul for my sake shall find it.
And he said to him, Why sayest thou me good? None is good except one, God; but if thou wouldst come into life, keep the commands.
And he said to him, Why sayest thou me good? None is good except one, God; but if thou wouldst come into life, keep the commands.
And every one who lets go houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for the sake of my name, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.
And the king having answered, will say to them, Trull I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me.
For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever should lose his life for my sake and the good news, the same shall save it.
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is good for thee rather to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go away into hell, into inextinguishable fire:
And he going in the way, one running and having fallen upon his knees, asked him, Good teacher, What shall I do that I might inherit eternal life
Except he should receive a hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mother, and children, and fields, with expulsions; and in the time coming eternal life.
Except he should receive a hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mother, and children, and fields, with expulsions; and in the time coming eternal life.
And that having fallen into thorns, and they are they having heard, and with cares and riches, and pleasures of life going forth, are choked, and bring not to maturity.
And a woman being in a flowing of blood for twelve years, who having expended all the means of subsistence upon physicians, could not be cured by any.
For whoever would wish to save his soul shall lose it: and whoever should lose his soul for my sake, the same shall save it.
Are not five little sparrows sold for two small coins, and one of them is not forgotten before God?
And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.
And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?
And the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of property falling. And he divided to them the property.
All things were by him; and without him out him was not one thing that was. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
The Father loves the Son, and he has given all things into his hand. He believing in the Son has eternal life: and he not believing the Son shall not see life, but the anger of God remains upon him.
And Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who he is saying to thee, Give me to drink: thou hadst asked him, and he had given thee living water.
But whoever should drink of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a spring of water springing up to eternal life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, That he hearing my word, and believing him having sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment; but has passed from death to life.
Truly, truly, I say to you, he believing in me has eternal life.
The thief comes not, except that he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I came that they might have life, and have above measure.
He loving his soul shall lose it; but he hating his soul in this world, shall guard it for life eternal.
And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.
And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.
Nor is served by men's hands, standing in need of anything, he giving to all life, and breath, and all things.
For if by the fall of one, death reigned by one; much more they receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of justice in life shall reign by one, Jesus Christ.)
For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For the thought of the flesh, death; and the thought of the Spirit, life and peace.
If in this life only we have been hoping in Christ, we are more to be compassionated than all men.
I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.
For me to live is Christ, and to die gain.
Holding on to the word of life; for boasting to me in the day of Christ, for I ran not in vain, nor was I wearied in vain.
For by him were all things created, things in the heavens, and things upon earth, things visible and invisible, whether thrones, whether dominions, whether beginnings, whether authorities: all were created by him, and for him: And he is before all, and all things have been established by him.
For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God. When Christ shall be manifested, our life, then also ye with him shall be made manifest in glory.
The aged men to be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in the faith, in love, in patience.
That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,
He having ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him conquering I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the pleasure garden of God.
In the midst of her broad way and of the river, hence and thence, the tree of life, making twelve fruits, in a month each one returning its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the cure 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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And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.
And surely, your blood of your lives I will search out, from the hand of every living thing I will search it out, and from the hand of man; from the hand of a man's brother I will search out the life of man.
Who the man desiring life, loving days, to see good?
I am the living bread which having come down from heaven: if any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and also the bread which I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.
This is the bread which having come down from heaven: not as your fathers ate manna, and died: he chewing this bread shall live forever.