'Life giving' in the Bible
“If God should determine to do so,If He should gather to Himself [that is, withdraw from man] His [life-giving] spirit and His breath,
The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,
When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.
Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.
The fear of the Lord is like a life-giving fountain, to turn people from deadly snares.
Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse tongue breaks the spirit.
Whoever listens to a life-giving rebuke will be at home among the wise.
Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.
The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters [copious and difficult to fathom];The fountain of [mature, godly] wisdom is like a bubbling stream [sparkling, fresh, pure, and life-giving].
For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man's spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.
"Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water."
Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?
Jesus answered and said to her, If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who he is that speaketh to thee, thou wouldest have requested him, and he would have given thee life-giving water.
"I am the Life-giving Bread," Jesus said to them; "he that comes to me shall never be hungry, and he that believes in me shall never thirst again.
As the life-giving Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same shall live by me.
The Spirit is the life-giving power; the flesh contributeth nothing: the declarations which I make to you, they are spirit, and they are life.
As the Scripture has recorded [Note: The following is not an exact quotation from the OT, but echoes Isa. 58:11 and Zech. 14:8], 'Streams of life-giving water will flow from the person's heart who believes in me.'"
whom God displayed publicly [before the eyes of the world] as a [life-giving] sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation (propitiation) by His blood [to be received] through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness [which demands punishment for sin], because in His forbearance [His deliberate restraint] He passed over the sins previously committed [before Jesus’ crucifixion].
It follows then that just as the result of a single transgression is a condemnation which extends to the whole race, so also the result of a single decree of righteousness is a life-giving acquittal which extends to the whole race.
For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
In like manner, the things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, if, a distinction in the sounds, they do not give, how shall it be known, what is being piped or harped?
This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
to the one, a deathly, deadly odor, to the other a vital, life-giving one. Who is qualified for this task? I am!
We [apostles] proclaim to you [the truth about Jesus], who existed from the beginning [of time]. We have heard [Him] and seen [Him] with our [own] eyes. We looked at Him, and [even] touched Him with our hands. [See John 20:20]. [So, we proclaim that] He is the word of life [i.e., the life-giving Word]!
for the Lamb that stands in the space before the throne will be their shepherd, and will lead them to life-giving springs of water; and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.'
After three days and a half 'the life-giving breath of God entered these men, and they stood up upon their feet,' and a great terror took possession of those who were watching them.