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 abides on him."
Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes has eternal life.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his soul for the sheep.
and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one snatch them out of My hand.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes on Me, though he die, yet shall he live;
Jesus saith 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 beholds Me no more; but ye behold Me; because I live, ye shall live also.
for the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus, our Lord.
For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
I have been crucified with Christ; and no longer am I living, but Christ is living in me; and, in so far as I am now living in flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
because in Him were all things created, in the heavens, and upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers??ll things have been 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, having come near, said to Him, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" And He said to him, "Why do you question Me concerning the good? One is the Good. But, if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments."
But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that, in your lifetime, you received in full your good things, and Lazarus, likewise, evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.
that every one who believes in Him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes on Him should 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 may be saved through Him. He that believes on Him is not judged; he that believes not has been judged already, because he has not believed on the name of the only begotten 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 abides on him."
For, as the Father hath life in Himself, so also He gave to the Son to have life in Himself;
Ye search the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have eternal life; and these are they that testify concerning Me;
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes on Me, though he die, yet shall he live;
And I know that His commandment is life eternal. What things, therefore, I speak, even as My Father hath told Me, so I speak."
We were buried, therefore, with Him through the immersion into death; that as 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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"Ye heard that it was said to the ancients, 'You shall not kill; and whosoever kills shall be in danger of the judgment.'
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through, and steal;
Be not, therefore, anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink!' or 'What shall we put on?'
because narrow is the gate, and straitened the way that leads to life, and few there are who find it!
because narrow is the gate, and straitened the way that leads to life, and few there are who find it!
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father.
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a man gluttonous and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners.' And wisdom was justified by her works."
for whosoever wishes to save his soul shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his soul for My sake shall find it;
for whosoever wishes to save his soul shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his soul for My sake shall find it;
And He said to him, "Why do you question Me concerning 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 question Me concerning the good? One is the Good. But, if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments."
And every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive manifold more and shall inherit eternal life.
"And, answering, the King will say to them, 'Verily I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of My brethren, even the least, ye did it to Me.'
For whosoever would save his soul shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his soul for My sake and the Gospel's, shall save it.
And, if your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is good for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having the two hands to go into Hell--into the unquenchable fire!
And, as He was going forth into the way, one, running to Him, and kneeling, was asking Him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do, that I may inherit eternal life?"
but he shall 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.
but he shall 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 that which fell among the thorns, these are those who heard; and, going forth, they are choked with anxieties, and riches, and pleasures of life, and bear no fruit to perfection.
And a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who could not be cured,
For whosoever wishes to save his soul shall lose it; but whosoever will lose his soul for My sake, the same shall save it.
"Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings? and one of them is not forgotten before God.
And He said to them, "Take heed, and guard yourselves from all covetousness; because one's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses."
But God said to him, 'Senseless one! this night they require your soul of you; and the things you prepared, whose shall they be?'
And the younger said to his father, 'Father, give me the portion of the estate that falls to me.' And he divided to them his living.
All things were made through Him, and apart from Him was not even one thing made that has been made. In Him was Life; and the Life was the light of men.
The Father loveth the Son, and hath 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 abides on him."
Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the Gift of God, and Who it is, That saith to you 'Give Me to drink,' you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water."
but whosoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life."
"Verily, verily, I say to you, He that hears My word, and believes Him Who sent Me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes has eternal life.
The thief comes not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came, that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.
He who loves his soul loses it; and he who hates his soul in this world will keep it unto life eternal.
And this is the eternal life, that they know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou didst send.
And this is the eternal life, that they know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou didst send.
nor is ministered to by human hands, as if needing anything; Himself giving to all life, and breath, and all things;
For, if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall those who receive the abundance of the grace, and of the gift of righteousness, reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
for the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus, our Lord.
For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most pitiable!
I have been crucified with Christ; and no longer am I living, but Christ is living in me; and, in so far as I am now living in flesh, I live in the faith of 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 forth the word of life, for an occasion of glorying to me at the day of Christ, that I ran not in vain, neither labored in vain.
because in Him were all things created, in the heavens, and upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers??ll things have been created through Him, and for Him; and He is before all things, and in Him all things have held together.
for ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God. When Christ, our Life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with Him be manifested in glory.
that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
that they may train the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
in the midst of its street. And on either side of the river, was a tree of life, producing twelve fruits, 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 That came down out of Heaven: if any one eat of This Bread, he shall live forever; yea, and the Bread That I will give him is My flesh, for the life of the world."
This is the Bread That came down out of Heaven. Not as the fathers ate, and died: he that eats this Bread shall live forever."