'Life' in the Bible

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

Life was in Him,and that life was the light of men.

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.

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

“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.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

and come out—those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.

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

And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.

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 the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

“I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever be thirsty again.

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.

I am the bread of life.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

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

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

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

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

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

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.

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.”

“Lord,” Peter asked, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You!”

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.

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.

But these are written so that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing you may have life in His name.

You have revealed the paths of life to me;You will fill me with gladnessin Your presence.

You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

“Go and stand in the temple complex, and tell the people all about this life.”

In His humiliation justice was denied Him.Who will describe His generation?For His life is taken from the earth.

When they heard this they became silent. Then they glorified God, saying, “So God has granted repentance resulting in life even to the Gentiles!”

Then as John was completing his life’s work, he said, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the One. But look! Someone is coming after me, and I am not worthy to untie the sandals on His feet.’

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.

Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.

But Paul went down, fell on him, embraced him, and said, “Don’t be alarmed, for his life is in him!”

But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

Paul looked intently at the Sanhedrin and said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience until this day.”

“All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem.

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

in God’s sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!

Since by the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

So then, as through one trespass there is condemnation for everyone, so also through one righteous act there is life-giving justification for everyone.

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

Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.

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.

Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life

and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me.

because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.

Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through His Spirit who lives in you.

For I am persuaded that not even death or life,angels or rulers,things present or things to come, hostile powers,

Lord, they have killed Your prophetsand torn down Your altars.I am the only one left,and they are trying to take my life!

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

Christ died and came to life for this: that He might rule over both the dead and the living.

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only do I thank them, but so do all the Gentile churches.

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come—everything is yours,

Don’t you know that we will judge angels—not to mention ordinary matters?

So if you have cases pertaining to this life, do you select those who have no standing in the church to judge?

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.

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.

If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

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

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

For we don’t want you to be unaware, brothers, of our affliction that took place in Asia: we were completely overwhelmed—beyond our strength—so that we even despaired of life.

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.

We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

For we who live are always given over to death because of Jesus, so that Jesus’ life may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.

So death works in us, but life in you.

Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly be by the law.

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.

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;

so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.

My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

Just one thing: Live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith that comes from the gospel,

Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing.

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up what was lacking in your ministry to me.