104 Bible Verses about Life

but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

Truly, truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain; but if it dies, it bears rich fruit.

I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it.

So they shall depart to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life."

but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

amassing right good treasure for themselves in the world to come, in order to secure the life which is life indeed.

so keeping yourselves within the love of God and waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that ends in life eternal.

But the man replied, 'Leave it for this year, sir, till I dig round about it and put in manure.

He first called his ten servants, giving them each a five-pound note, and telling them, 'Trade with this till I come back.'

The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again.

but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to eat from the tree of Life which is within the paradise of God.'

through the streets of the City; on both sides of the river grew the tree of Life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, each month having its own fruit; and the leaves served to heal the nations.

He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk.

Finally, brothers, keep in mind whatever is true, whatever is worthy, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is attractive, whatever is high-toned, all excellence, all merit.

for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Beloved, as sojourners and exiles I appeal to you to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war upon the soul.

(for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come).

(These all died in faith without obtaining the promises; they only saw them far away and hailed them, owning they were 'strangers and exiles upon earth.'

What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life. And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;

The interests of the flesh mean death, the interests of the Spirit mean life and peace.

Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life (the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) ??3 it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will appear with him in glory.

Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies,

also, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, in case he incurs slander and is trapped by the devil.

Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

Who among you is wise and learned? Let him show by his good conduct, with the modesty of wisdom, what his deeds are.

Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,

so that your life may be correct in the eyes of the outside world and self-supporting.

Then to the angel of the church at Smyrna write thus: ??These are the words of the First and Last, who was dead and came to life: I know your distress and your poverty (but you are rich!): I know how you are being slandered by those who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but a mere synagogue of Satan!). Have no fear of what you are to suffer. The devil indeed is going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested; you will have a distressful ten days. Be faithful, though you have to die for it, and I will give you the crown of Life.

And the testimony is, that God gave us life eternal and this life is in his Son.

Our ancestors ate manna in the desert: as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat." Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

so he said to them again, "Truly, truly I tell you, I am the shepherd of the sheep; all who ever came before me have been thieves and robbers ??but the sheep would not listen to them. (I am the Gate; whoever enters by me will be saved, he will go in and out and find pasture.) read more.
The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance. The God who made the world and all things in it, he, as Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in shrines that are made by human hands; he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything, for it is he who gives life and breath and all things to all men.

He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me; for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

The Son of man, he said, has to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and high priests and scribes, to be killed, and on the third day to be raised. He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me; for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it. read more.
What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again; he spoke of this quite freely. Peter took him and began to reprove him for it, but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's." read more.
Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me; for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and to forfeit his soul?

in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished.

Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.

Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.

and no one who lives and believes in me will ever die. You believe that?"

and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.

"I tell you truly," said Jesus, "you will be in paradise with me this very day."

Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone holds to what I say, he will never see death."

And Elijah along with Moses appeared to them, and conversed with Jesus.

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

whereas he who has not these by him is blind, shortsighted, oblivious that he has been cleansed from his erstwhile sins.

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

Tell no lies to one another; you have stripped off the old nature with its practices,

THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine. He was with God in the very beginning: through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him. read more.
In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance. The God who made the world and all things in it, he, as Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in shrines that are made by human hands; he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything, for it is he who gives life and breath and all things to all men.

So you will know them by their fruit.

Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

However, they will get no further, for their aberration will be detected by everyone, as was the case with these magicians.

Jesus performed this, the first of his Signs, at Cana in Galilee, thereby displaying his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

For nothing is hidden that shall not be disclosed, nothing concealed that shall not be known and revealed.

he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything, for it is he who gives life and breath and all things to all men.

Such is the confidence I possess through Christ in my service of God. It is not that I am personally qualified to form any judgment by myself; my qualifications come from God, and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant ??a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."

Jesus replied to him, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone."

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.

Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes!

fear not, then, you are worth far more than sparrows!

What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me; for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

On the other hand, if Christ is within you, though the body is a dead thing owing to Adam's sin, the spirit is living as the result of righteousness.

So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

On the other hand, if Christ is within you, though the body is a dead thing owing to Adam's sin, the spirit is living as the result of righteousness.

So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way. But the road that leads to life is both narrow and close, and there are few who find it.

On he went, teaching from one town and village to another, as he made his way to Jerusalem. A man said to him, "Is it only a few, sir, who are saved?" So he said to them, "Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,

He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

And he proceeded to teach them that the Son of man had to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, to be killed and after three days to rise again; he spoke of this quite freely. Peter took him and began to reprove him for it, but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's." read more.
Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me; for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

The Son of man, he said, has to endure great suffering, to be rejected by the elders and high priests and scribes, to be killed, and on the third day to be raised. He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me; for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it. read more.
What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

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

You are the light of the world. A town on the top of a hill cannot be hidden.

No one lights a lamp to put it in a cellar or under a bowl, but on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches: 'The conqueror I will allow to eat from the tree of Life which is within the paradise of God.'

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it.

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life 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 I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died, and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

You have a saying, have you not, 'Four months yet, then harvest'? Look round, I tell you; see, the fields are white for harvesting! The reaper is already getting his wages and harvesting for eternal life, so that the sower shares the reaper's joy.

Indeed the Son of man must be lifted on high, just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life ??God's anger broods over him."

(When a widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn that the first duty of religion is to their own household, and that they should make some return to those who have brought them up. In God's sight this is an acceptable thing.)

Not that I complain of want, for I have learned how to be content wherever I am.

(for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).

As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.

(for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).

As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you. He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day), for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. read more.
He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.

just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all": ??in due time this was attested,

for the Son of man himself has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

and has now revealed in the appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has put down death and brought life and immortality to light by the gospel.

(the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) ??3 it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:

for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

What profit will it be if a man gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul? What will a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

What could a man offer as an equivalent for his soul?

That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ (for it is Christ whom you have been taught, it is in Christ that you have been instructed ??the real Christ who is in Jesus); you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit, read more.
and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Peter said, "Well, we have left our homes and followed you!" He said to them, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the Realm of God, who does not receive ever so much more in this present world, and in the world to come life eternal."

he who sows for his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, and he who sows for the Spirit will reap life eternal from the Spirit.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself; if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die;

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

He who possesses the Son possesses life: he who does not possess the Son does not possess life.

so that, while sin had reigned the reign of death, grace might also reign with a righteousness that ends in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.

He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Jesus said to her, "I am myself resurrection and life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies,

The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life ??God's anger broods over him."

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;

Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

but these Signs are recorded so that you may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and believing may have life through his Name.

On the other hand, if Christ is within you, though the body is a dead thing owing to Adam's sin, the spirit is living as the result of righteousness.

So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).

As life means Christ to me, so death means gain.

We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.