23 Bible Verses about Seeking Life

Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses [it] will keep it.

And Yahweh God said, "Look--the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. {What if} he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?"

So he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and {a flaming, turning sword} to guard the way to the tree of life.

"See, I am setting {before you} {today} life and prosperity and death and disaster;

I invoke as a witness against you {today} the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set {before you}, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,

Who [is] the man who desires life, who loves [many] days in order to see good?

For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and [his] lips must not speak deceit.

Seek good and not bad in order that you may live, and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel, "Seek me so that you may live."

Seek Yahweh so that you may live, so that he will not break out like a fire [against] the house of Joseph! And it will devour, {with none to quench} [it] for Bethel.

"May Reuben live, and may he not die, {and let his number not be few}."

Then Queen Esther answered, and she said, "If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it is good to the king, let my life be given to me at my petition and my people at my request;

Then Satan answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that {that} man has he will give for his life.

The king rose in his anger {from the banquet} [and went] to the palace garden, and Haman stood to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for {he realized that the king was determined to make an end to his life}.

And not while I am still alive, will you not show the loyal love of Yahweh with me, that I may not die?

And behold, someone came up to him [and] said, "Teacher, what good [thing] must I do so that I will have eternal life?"

And behold, a certain legal expert stood up to test him, saying, "Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?"

And [as] he was setting out on [his] way, one [individual] ran up and knelt down before him [and] asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?"

And a certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, [by] doing what will I inherit eternal life?"

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

storing up for themselves a good foundation for the future, in order that they may take hold of [what is] truly life.

to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life,

because narrow [is] the gate and constricted [is] the road that leads to life, and there are few who find it!