'Life' in the Bible

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

For the mindset of the flesh [is] death, but the mindset of the Spirit [is] life and peace,

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

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!"

For if their rejection [means] the reconciliation of the world, what [will] their acceptance [mean] except life from the dead?

who risked their own necks for my life, for which not only I am thankful, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all [things] [are] yours,

If {we have put our hope} in Christ in this life only, we are of all people most pitiable.

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

But I call upon God [as] witness against my life, that [in order to] spare you, I did not come again to Corinth.

to those on the one hand an odor from death to death, [and] to those on the other hand a fragrance from life to life. And who [is] qualified for these [things]?

who also makes us adequate [as] servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

always carrying around the death of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

For we who are alive [are] continually being handed over to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.

So then, death is at work in us, but life in you.

For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened {for this reason, that} we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,

and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that [life] I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Therefore [is] the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law.

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

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death.

holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

because on account of the work of Christ he came near to the point of death, risking his life in order that {he might make up for your inability to serve me}.

Yes, I ask also you, true yokefellow, help them, who struggled along with me in the gospel with both Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names [are] in the book of life.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, [who is] your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

But because of this I was shown mercy, in order that in me foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate his total patience, for an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.

on behalf of kings and all those who are in authority, in order that we may live a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

For the training of the body is {somewhat} profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, [because it] holds promise for the present life and for the [life] to come.

Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

I command you, in the sight of God who gives life to all [things] and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

storing up for themselves a good foundation for the future, in order that they may take hold of [what is] truly life.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of life which [is] in Christ Jesus,

but has now been disclosed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought to light life and immortality through the gospel,

No one who serves as a soldier is entangled in the activities of [everyday] life, so that he may please the one who enlisted [him].

But you have faithfully followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

in the hope of eternal life which God, who does not lie, promised before eternal ages,

so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God--he remains a priest for all time.

who has become [a priest] not according to a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you; {considering the outcome of their way of life}, imitate their faith.

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.

you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

[because you] know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold,

Husbands, in the same way live with [your wives] {knowledgeably}, as with the weaker female vessel, showing [them] honor as fellow heirs also of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and [his] lips must not speak deceit.

because his divine power has bestowed on us all [things] [that are] necessary for life and godliness, through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence of character,

and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched, concerning the word of life--

and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was revealed to us--

And this is the promise which he himself promised us: eternal life.

We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.

We have come to know love by this: that {he} laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

The one who has the Son has the life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.

These [things] I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life.

If anyone should see his brother sinning a sin not [leading] to death, he should ask, and he will grant life to him, to those who sin not [leading] to death. ([There] is a sin [leading] to death; I do not say that he should ask about that.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, in order that we may know the one who is true, and we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will grant to him to eat from the tree of life which is in the paradise of God.'

"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: "This is what the first and the last says, who was dead and came to life:

Do not be afraid of [the things] which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw [some] of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will experience affliction ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

The one who conquers in this way will be dressed in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the book of life, and I will declare his name before my Father and before his angels.

and a third of the creatures in the sea--the ones which had life--died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

And after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

And all those who live on the earth will worship him, {everyone whose name is not written} from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is going to come up from the abyss, and he is going to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished [when they] see the beast that was, and is not, and will be present.

And I saw thrones, and they sat down on them, and authority to judge was granted to them. And [I saw] the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand, and they came to life and reigned with Christ [for] a thousand years.

(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed.) This [is] the first resurrection.

And I saw the dead--the great and the small--standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the [book] of life, and the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.

And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

And he said to me, "It is done! I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give [water] from the spring of the water of life freely.

And every unclean thing and one who practices detestable things and falsehood will never enter into it, except those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

And he showed me the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming out from the throne of God and of the Lamb

in the middle of its street, and {on both sides of the river} [is] the tree of life, producing twelve fruits--yielding its fruit according to every month--and the leaves of the tree [are] for the healing of the nations.

Blessed [are] the ones who wash their robes, so that their authority will be over the tree of life and they may enter into the city through the gates.

And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And the one who hears, let him say, "Come!" And the one who is thirsty, let him come. The one who wants, let him take the water of life freely.

And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share of the tree of life and from the holy city that are written in this book.