104 Bible Verses about Life

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains just one grain. But if it dies, it yields a great harvest.

the living one. I was dead, yet here I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the underworld.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

Through baptism we have been buried with him in death, so that just as he was raised from the dead through the Father's glory, we too may live a new life.

For whoever wants to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will preserve it.

Then they will go away to everlasting punishment, and the upright to everlasting life."

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

storing up a valuable treasure for themselves for the future, so as to grasp the life that is life indeed.

and keep in the love of God, and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to eternal life.

He answered, 'Let it stand this one year more, sir, till I dig around it and manure it;

And he called in ten of his slaves and gave them each twenty dollars and told them to trade with it while he was gone.

A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

yet you refuse to come to me for life.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will permit him who is victorious to eat the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the Paradise of God.'

and ran through the middle of the principal street of the city. On both sides of the river grew the tree of life. It bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a different kind each month, and its leaves were a cure for the heathen.

He is like a man who was building a house, who dug deep and laid his foundation upon the rock, and when there was a flood the torrent burst upon that house and could not shake it, because it was well built.

She had a sister named Mary, who seated herself at the Master's feet, and listened to what he was saying.

Now, brothers, let your minds dwell on what is true, what is worthy, what is right, what is pure, what is amiable, what is kindly??n everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.

For you have died, and your life now lies hidden with Christ in God.

Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.

for we have no permanent city here on earth, but we are in search of the city that is to come.

All these people lived all their lives in faith, and died without receiving what had been promised; they only saw it far ahead and welcomed the sight of it, recognizing that they themselves were only foreigners and strangers here on earth.

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life. Yet there are some of you who will not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who would not believe, and who was going to betray him.

For to be physically minded means death, but to be spiritually minded means life and peace.

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

It is what existed from the beginning, that we announce; what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, and touched with our hands; it is the very message of life??2 for life has been revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and announce to you that eternal life that was with the Father and has been revealed to us??3 it is what we have seen and heard that we announce to you also, so that you may share our fellowship, for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,

When Christ, who is our true life, shall make his appearance, then you also will appear glorified with him.

Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies,

He must also be a man of good standing with outsiders, or he may get into disgrace and be entrapped by the slanderers.

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.

If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

so that you may have the respect of the outsiders, and not be dependent upon anybody.

"To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: " 'The first and the last, who died and came to life again, speaks thus: I know of your distress and poverty??hough you are rich!?? know how you are slandered by those who claim to be Jews when they are not so, but only a synagogue of Satan! Do not be afraid of what you are going to suffer. See! The devil is going to put some of you into prison to be tested there, and for ten days to endure persecution. Prove faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life.

And that testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son.

Our forefathers in the desert had manna to eat; as the Scripture says, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat!'" Jesus said to them, "I tell you, Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the bread out of heaven, for it is God's bread that comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

So Jesus said again, "I tell you, I am the door of the sheepfold. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep would not obey them. I am the door. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will pass in and out and find pasture. read more.
A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.

For as I was going about and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God.' So it is what you already worship in ignorance that I am now telling you of. God who created the world and all that is in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built by human hands, nor is he waited on by human hands as though he were in need of anything, for he himself gives all men life and breath and everything.

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it.

and said, "The Son of Man must endure great suffering and be refused by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and be raised to life on the third day." And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me. For whoever wants to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will preserve it. read more.
What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

and no one who will not take up his cross and follow me is worthy of me. Whoever gains his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will gain it.

Then he explained to them for the first time that the Son of Man must go through much suffering, and be refused by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed, and rise again three days after. He told them this plainly. And Peter took him aside, and began to reprove him for it. But turning and seeing his disciples he reproved Peter, and said, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! for you do not side with God, but with men." read more.
And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me and for the good news will preserve it. For what good does it do a man to gain the whole world and yet part with his life?

in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless.

Therefore, dear friends, while waiting for this, make every effort to be found by him unstained, irreproachable, and at peace.

A religious observance that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and keep one's self unstained by the world.

and no one who is alive and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe that?"

which has now been revealed through the appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has taken away the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the good news,

And he said to him, "I tell you, you will be in Paradise with me today!"

I tell you, if anyone observes my teaching, he will never experience death."

And Elijah appeared to them, accompanied by Moses, and they talked with Jesus.

You have spent time enough in the past in doing as the heathen like to do, indulging in sensuality, passion, drunkenness, carousing, dissipation, and detestable idolatry.

for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer,

For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins.

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways

In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine. It was he that was with God in the beginning. Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be. read more.
It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

For as I was going about and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God.' So it is what you already worship in ignorance that I am now telling you of. God who created the world and all that is in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built by human hands, nor is he waited on by human hands as though he were in need of anything, for he himself gives all men life and breath and everything.

So you can tell them by their fruit.

This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.

But they will not make much progress, for everyone will perceive their folly, just as they did that of those others.

This, the first of the signs of his mission, Jesus showed at Cana in Galilee. By it he showed his greatness, and his disciples believed in him.

For there is nothing hidden that shall not be disclosed, nor kept secret that shall not be known and come to light.

nor is he waited on by human hands as though he were in need of anything, for he himself gives all men life and breath and everything.

Such is the confidence that I have through Christ in my relations to God. Not that I am of myself qualified to claim anything as originating with me. My qualification is from God, and he has qualified me to serve him in the interests of a new agreement, not in writing but of spirit. For what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.

But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone is man to live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God!' "

Jesus answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone is man to live!' "

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature.

Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes?

You must not be afraid; you are worth more than a great many sparrows!

For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?

What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it.

and no one who will not take up his cross and follow me is worthy of me. Whoever gains his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will gain it.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

"Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it. But the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few that find it.

So he went about among the towns and villages, teaching and making his way toward Jerusalem. And someone said to him, "Are only a few to be saved, Master?" He said to them, "You must strain every nerve to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in, and will not succeed,

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Then he explained to them for the first time that the Son of Man must go through much suffering, and be refused by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed, and rise again three days after. He told them this plainly. And Peter took him aside, and began to reprove him for it. But turning and seeing his disciples he reproved Peter, and said, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! for you do not side with God, but with men." read more.
And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me and for the good news will preserve it.

and said, "The Son of Man must endure great suffering and be refused by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and be raised to life on the third day." And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me. For whoever wants to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will preserve it. read more.
What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

You are the light of the world! A city that is built upon a hill cannot be hidden.

No one lights a lamp and puts it in the cellar or under a peck measure; he puts it on its stand, so that people who come in can see the light.

For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men.

Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will permit him who is victorious to eat the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the Paradise of God.'

Whoever gains his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will gain it.

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

For whoever wants to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will preserve it.

For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it. For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

It is Christ's love that controls me, for I have become convinced that as one has died for all, all have died, and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting. The reaper is already being paid and gathering the harvest for eternal life, so that the sower may be glad with the reaper.

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent up in the air, the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety in the treatment of their own families, and to return the care of those who brought them up, for that is what God approves.

Not that I have anything to complain of, for I have learned how to be contented with the condition I am in.

This is why the good news was preached to the dead also, that though they are judged in their physical nature as men are, they may yet live, like God, in the Spirit.

For, as I see it, living means Christ and dying something even better.

This is why the good news was preached to the dead also, that though they are judged in their physical nature as men are, they may yet live, like God, in the Spirit.

For, as I see it, living means Christ and dying something even better.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life. Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. read more.
Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood remains united to me and I remain united to him. Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.

just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."

who gave himself as a ransom for all men. This is what was testified to at the proper times,

For the Son of Man himself has not come to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to free many others."

which has now been revealed through the appearance of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has taken away the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the good news,

It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son,

For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?

For what can a man give to buy back his life?

That is not the way you have been taught what Christ means, at least if you have really become acquainted with him and been instructed in him, and in union with him have been taught the truth as it is found in Jesus. You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions. read more.
You must adopt a new attitude of mind,

Peter said, "Here we have left home and followed you." And he said to them, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the Kingdom of God who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the coming age eternal life."

The man who sows to gratify his physical cravings will reap destruction from them, and the man who sows to benefit the spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Let my yoke be put upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble-minded, and your hearts will find rest,

None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself; if we live, we are responsible to the Lord, and if we die, we are responsible to him; so whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever has not the Son has not life.

so that just as sin had reigned through death, mercy might reign through uprightness and bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies,

A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.

when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God!' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him will come to me.

Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

and he died for all that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

This is why the good news was preached to the dead also, that though they are judged in their physical nature as men are, they may yet live, like God, in the Spirit.

For, as I see it, living means Christ and dying something even better.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love is still in death.

when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.