'Life' in the Bible

Return, LORD, save my life! Deliver me, because of your gracious love.

So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion,Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me].

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.

So my heart rejoices and I am happy; My life is safe.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

from [the] {presence} of [the] wicked who destroy me, [those] enemies against my life, [they that] surround me.

Arise, O Lord, confront him, cast him down;Save my soul from the wicked with Your sword,

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

The Law of the LORD is perfect, restoring life. The testimony of the LORD is steadfast, making foolish people wise.

The Lord's precepts are fair and make one joyful. The Lord's commands are pure and give insight for life.

He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

Deliver my life from the sword,my only life from the power of these dogs.

The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

All who prosper on earth will eat and bow down;all those who go down to the dustwill kneel before Him—even the one who cannot preserve his life.

He renews my life;He leads me along the right pathsfor His name’s sake.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

He will live a good life,and his descendants will inherit the land.

Preserve my life and deliver me; do not let me be ashamed, because I take refuge in you.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

{A Psalm of David.} The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

O Lord, You have brought my life up from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);You have kept me alive, so that I would not go down to the pit (grave).

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

"What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?

Into your hand I entrust my life; you will rescue me, O Lord, the faithful God.

I will rejoice and be glad in Your faithful lovebecause You have seen my affliction.You have known the troubles of my life

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

The course of my life is in Your power;deliver me from the power of my enemiesand from my persecutors.

Let me not be ashamed, LORD, for I have called upon you. Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in the next life.

My soul makes its boast in the Lord;The humble and downtrodden will hear it and rejoice.

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

The Lord redeems the life of His servants,and all who take refuge in Him will not be punished.

Let those who seek my life be ashamed and disgraced; let those who plot evil against me be driven back and confounded.

For without cause they hid their net for me;Without cause they dug a pit [of destruction] for my life.

Lord, how long will You look on?Rescue my life from their ravages,my only one from the young lions.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

“Lord, reveal to me the end of my lifeand the number of my days.Let me know how short-lived I am.

You, indeed, have made my days short in length,and my life span as nothing in Your sight.Yes, every mortal man is only a vapor.Selah

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away."

Let those who seek to take my lifebe disgraced and confounded.Let those who wish me harmbe driven back and humiliated.

May the Lord protect him and save his life! May he be blessed in the land! Do not turn him over to his enemies!

O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear];Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the JordanAnd the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

No man can redeem the life of another, nor can he give to God a sufficient payment for him

for it would cost too much to redeem his life, and the payments would go on forever

So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

But God will redeem my lifefrom the power of Sheol,for He will take me.Selah

For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)

For strangers rise up against me,and violent men seek my life.They have no regard for God.Selah

God is my helper;the Lord is the sustainer of my life.

He has redeemed my life in peace from the battle that was against me,For there were many against me.

They stir up strife, they lurk;they watch my stepswhile they wait to take my life.

For You delivered me from death,even my feet from stumbling,to walk before God in the light of life.

My life is among lions;I must lie among those who breathe out fire—The sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,And their tongue a sharp sword.

They set a net for my steps;My very life was bowed down.They dug a pit before me;Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah.

Look, they lie in ambush for my life; these violent men gather together against me, but not because of any transgression or sin of mine, LORD.

For You have heard my vows, O God;You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name.

Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands.

But those who seek to destroy my lifewill go into the depths of the earth.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,

Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

For the choir director; according to Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.Save me, O God,For the waters have threatened my life.

Let them be erased from the book of lifeand not be recorded with the righteous.

The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.

Let those who seek my lifebe disgraced and confounded;let those who wish me harmbe driven back and humiliated.

For my enemies have spoken against me;And those who watch for my life have consulted together,

Let those who attack my life be ashamed and consumed;Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, who seek to injure me.

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you, whose life you have redeemed.

May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations.

He will rescue their life from oppression and violence,And their blood will be precious in his sight;

May he have long life, and may gold from Sheba be given to him: may prayers be made for him at all times; may blessings be on him every day.

Do not give the life of Your dove to beasts;do not forget the lives of Your poor people forever.

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

Then we shall not turn back from You;Revive us and we will call on Your name.

Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

Protect my life, for I am faithful.You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You.

Bring joy to Your servant’s life,because I turn to You, Lord.

For Your faithful love for me is great,and You deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.

God, arrogant people have attacked me;a gang of ruthless men seeks my life.They have no regard for You.

The singers as well as the players of flutes will say,“All my springs and sources of joy are in you [Jerusalem, city of God].”

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Remember how short my life is.Have You created everyone for nothing?

No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)

You end their lives; they sleep.They are like grass that grows in the morning—

As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,Or if due to strength, eighty years,Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?]And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

They band together against the life of the righteousand condemn the innocent to death.

I will pay attention to living a life of integrity when will I attain it? I will live with integrity of heart in my house.