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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To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever refuses to believe in the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
I give eternal life to them. 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. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, 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 will live also.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the the Spirit is life and peace;
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers; all things have been 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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The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And just then someone came to him and said, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? No one is good but one. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in like manner, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and 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 judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. He who believes in him is not judged. He who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever refuses to believe in the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also 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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God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
"'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"
For whoever eats the fat of the animal, of which men offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, even the soul who eats it shall be cut off from his people.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."
The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD, in that they eat meat with the blood." He said, "You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me this day."
I loathe my life. I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. LORD, you preserve man and animal.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her, and those who hold on to her are blessed
For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from the LORD.
The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where 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.
A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
I said, "I won't see the LORD in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
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 animals groan. The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?"
"You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'
"Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
"Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'
How narrow is the gate, and difficult is the way that leads to life. Few are those who find it.
How narrow is the gate, and difficult is the way that leads to life. Few are those who find it.
"Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.' But wisdom is justified by her actions."
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? No one is good but one. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? No one is good but one. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
"The King will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off.[note: idiom meaning to stop doing a sin] It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,
As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.
but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.
That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
"Are not five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.
He said to them, "Beware. Keep yourselves from all covetousness, for a man's life does not consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."
"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared?whose will they be?'
The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.
All things were made through him, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.
The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever refuses to believe in the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says 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 thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
"Truly, truly, I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
neither is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the the Spirit is life and peace;
If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers; all things have been created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, your life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every 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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The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.
Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
This is the bread which came down out of heaven?not as the fathers ate, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."