'Eternal' in the Bible

And to you and your future offspring I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.”

He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and numerous; I will make many nations come from you, and I will give this land as an eternal possession to your future descendants.’

The blessings of your father excelthe blessings of my ancestorsand the bounty of the eternal hills.May they rest on the head of Joseph,on the crown of the prince of his brothers.

with the best products of the ancient mountainsand the bounty of the eternal hills;

Furthermore, the Eternal One of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not man who changes his mind.”

May Yahweh your God be praised! He delighted in you and put you on the throne of Israel, because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel. He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”

The enemy has come to eternal ruin;You have uprooted the cities,and the very memory of them has perished.

You reveal the path of life to me;in Your presence is abundant joy;in Your right hand are eternal pleasures.

Their graves are their eternal homes,their homes from generation to generation,though they have named estates after themselves.

For Yahweh is good, and His love is eternal;His faithfulness endures through all generations.

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.        His love is eternal.

Give thanks to the God of gods.        His love is eternal.

Give thanks to the Lord of lords.        His love is eternal.

He alone does great wonders.        His love is eternal.

He made the heavens skillfully.        His love is eternal.

He spread the land on the waters.        His love is eternal.

He made the great lights:        His love is eternal.

the sun to rule by day,        His love is eternal.

the moon and stars to rule by night.        His love is eternal.

He struck the firstborn of the Egyptians        His love is eternal.

and brought Israel out from among them        His love is eternal.

with a strong hand and outstretched arm.        His love is eternal.

He divided the Red Sea        His love is eternal.

and led Israel through,        His love is eternal.

but hurled Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea.        His love is eternal.

He led His people in the wilderness.        His love is eternal.

He struck down great kings        His love is eternal.

and slaughtered famous kings—        His love is eternal.

Sihon king of the Amorites        His love is eternal.

and Og king of Bashan—        His love is eternal.

and gave their land as an inheritance,        His love is eternal.

an inheritance to Israel His servant.        His love is eternal.

He remembered us in our humiliation        His love is eternal.

and rescued us from our foes.        His love is eternal.

He gives food to every creature.        His love is eternal.

Give thanks to the God of heaven!        His love is eternal.

The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me.Lord, Your love is eternal;do not abandon the work of Your hands.

Also, they are afraid of heights and dangers on the road;the almond tree blossoms,the grasshopper loses its spring,and the caper berry has no effect;for man is headed to his eternal home,and mourners will walk around in the street;

For a child will be born for us,a son will be given to us,and the government will be on His shoulders.He will be namedWonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

Instead of your being deserted and hated,with no one passing through,I will make you an object of eternal pride,a joy from age to age.

Because your shame was double,and they cried out, “Disgrace is their portion,”therefore, they will possess double in their land,and eternal joy will be theirs.

He sent His glorious armto be at Moses’ right hand,divided the waters before themto obtain eternal fame for Himself,

But Yahweh is the true God;He is the living God and eternal King.The earth quakes at His wrath,and the nations cannot endure His rage.

How great are His miracles,and how mighty His wonders!His kingdom is an eternal kingdom,and His dominion is from generation to generation.

Many of those who sleep in the dustof the earth will awake,some to eternal life,and some to shame and eternal contempt.

If your hand or your foot causes your downfall, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.

Just then someone came up and asked Him, “Teacher, what good must I do to have eternal life?”

And everyone who has left houses, brothers or sisters, father or mother, children, or fields because of My name will receive 100 times more and will inherit eternal life.

Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!

“And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

who will not receive 100 times more, now at this time—houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions—and eternal life in the age to come.

Just then an expert in the law stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of the unrighteous money so that when it fails, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings.

A ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

who will not receive many times more at this time, and eternal life in the age to come.”

so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

“I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

Simon Peter answered, “Lord, who will we go to? You have the words of eternal life.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

for You gave Him authorityover all flesh;so He may give eternal lifeto all You have given Him.

This is eternal life:that they may know You, the only true God,and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.

For His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.

eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality;

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification—and the end is eternal life!

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the command of the eternal God to advance the obedience of faith among all nations—

For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.

So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

For we know that if our temporary, earthly dwelling is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.

because the one who sows to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,

But I received mercy for this reason, so that in me, the worst of them, Christ Jesus might demonstrate His extraordinary patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Fight the good fight for the faith;take hold of eternal lifethat you were called toand have made a good confession aboutin the presence of many witnesses.

the only One who has immortality,dwelling in unapproachable light;no one has seen or can see Him,to Him be honor and eternal might.Amen.

This is why I endure all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

so that having been justified by His grace,we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

After He was perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him,

teaching about ritual washings, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

He entered the most holy place once for all, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.

how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God?

Therefore, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Now the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will personally restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little.