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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He that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that disbelieves the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God continues on him.
I tell you most truly, He that believes has eternal life.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand.
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes in me, even if he has died, shall live,
Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.
Yet a little while and the world beholds me no more; but you shall behold me; because I live, you shall live also.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord.
for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace.
I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
for by him were all things created which are in heaven and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers. 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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And behold one came and said to him, Teacher, what good [work] shall I do that I may have eternal life? And he said to him, Why do you ask me of the good? one is the good. But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that you received your good things in your life, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in pain.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men;
that every one believing in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life. read more. For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that believes in him is not judged; but he that believes not has been judged already; because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
He that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that disbelieves the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God continues on him.
For as the Father has life in himself, so has he also given to the Son to have life in himself;
You search the Scriptures, because you think by them to have eternal life; and they testify of me;
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes in me, even if he has died, shall live,
and I know that his commandment is eternal life. What things I speak, therefore, I so speak as the Father has told me.
We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.
who was not a priest after the law of an external commandment, but after the power of imperishable 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 by the ancients, You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be subject to the judgment.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal.
Be not anxious, therefore, saying, What shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or with what shall we be clothed?
for narrow is the gate, and compressed the way which leads to life, and few are those who find it.
for narrow is the gate, and compressed the way which leads to life, and few are those who find it.
Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion [1.5 mills]? and one of them cannot fall to the ground without your Father.
the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a glutton, and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified by her children.
For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, shall find it.
For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, shall find it.
And he said to him, Why do you ask me of the good? one is the good. But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.
And he said to him, Why do you ask me of the good? one is the good. But if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.
and whoever has left brothers or sisters, or a father or mother, or children, or lands or houses, for my name's sake, shall receive many times as much, and inherit eternal life.
And the king shall answer and say to them, I tell you truly, that inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me.
For whoever wishes to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, and that of the good news, shall save it.
And if your hand offends you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands to go away into hell, into the inextinguishable fire.
And as he was going on the way, one ran before and kneeled down to him, and asked him, Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
who shall not receive a hundred fold now at this present time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the life to come eternal life.
who shall not receive a hundred fold now at this present time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the life to come eternal life.
and that which fell among thorns signifies those who hear, and going away are choked by cares and riches and the pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
And a woman having a hemorrhage of twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be cured by any one,
For whoever wishes to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, shall save it.
Are not five sparrows sold for two assarions [3 cents], and one of them is not forgotten before God?
And he said to them, See, and beware of all covetousness; for one's life depends not on the abundance of his property.
But God said to him, Foolish man, this night they shall require your soul from you; and who then will have the goods which you have provided?
And the youngest of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the estate that falls to me; and he divided to them his living.
All things existed through him, and without him not one thing existed, which existed. 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 that believes on the Son has eternal life; but he that disbelieves the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God continues on him.
Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that 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 which I will give him shall never thirst; but the water which I will give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.
I tell you most truly, he that hears my word and believes him that sent me has eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
I tell you most truly, He that believes has eternal life.
The thief comes not, except to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall preserve it to eternal life.
And this is the eternal life; that they shall know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
And this is the eternal life; that they shall know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
neither is he served by the hands of men as needing any thing, since he gives to all life, and breath, and all things;
for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;??18 therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life;
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord.
for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
I am crucified with Christ; and I no longer live myself, but Christ lives in me; and the present life which I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Because for me to live is Christ and to die is gain.
holding fast the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
for by him were all things created which are in heaven and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and for him, and he is before all things, and in him all things consist,
For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God; when Christ your life shall be made manifest, then shall you also be made manifest in glory.
That the aged men be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
that they may instruct the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,
Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that conquers will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God.
In the midst of its broad plain and along the river on each side was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, and yielding monthly each of its fruits, and the leaves of the tree are 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 any one eats of this bread, he shall 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 from heaven; not as your fathers eat and died, he that eats this bread shall live forever.