'Life' in the Bible

But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God [revealing His plan of salvation], and righteousness [making us acceptable to God], and sanctification [making us holy and setting us apart for God], and redemption [providing our ransom from the penalty for sin],

However, brothers and sisters, I could not talk to you as to spiritual people, but [only] as to worldly people [dominated by human nature], mere infants [in the new life] in Christ!

Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my way of life in Christ [my conduct and my precepts for godly living], just as I teach everywhere in every church.

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

And God has not only raised the Lord [to life], but will also raise us up by His power.

It is my desire that all men might be even as I am. But every man has the power of his special way of life given him by God, one in this way and one in that.

But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

However, each one must live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him. This is what I command in all the churches.

Each person should remain in the life situation in which he was called.

Brothers, let each one remain with God in that condition in which he was [when he was] called.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

and those who use the world [taking advantage of its opportunities], as though they did not make full use of it. For the outward form of this world [its present social and material nature] is passing away.

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things [that have been created], and we [believers exist and have life and have been redeemed] through Him.

All things are lawful [that is, morally legitimate, permissible], but not all things are beneficial or advantageous. All things are lawful, but not all things are constructive [to character] and edifying [to spiritual life].

Do not offend Jews or Greeks or even the church of God [but live to honor Him];

But always seek to excel in the greater gifts. And now I will point out to you a way of life which transcends all others.

And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

that He was buried; that He rose to life again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

If there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then Christ Himself has not risen to life.

Nay more, we are actually being discovered to be bearing false witness about God, because we have testified that God raised Christ to life, whom He did not raise, if in reality none of the dead are raised.

For if it is not possible for the dead to come to life again, then Christ has not come to life again:

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

However, when all things are subjected to Him (Christ), then the Son Himself will also be subjected to the One (the Father) who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all [manifesting His glory without any opposition, the supreme indwelling and controlling factor of life].

Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.

If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.

Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

However, the spiritual [the immortal life] is not first, but the physical [the mortal life]; then the spiritual.

Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life.

For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.

But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.