'Life' in the Bible

“Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.”

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

“If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.

And someone came to Him and said, “Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?”

And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

And He *said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire,

If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into hell,

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it?”

When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders asking Him to come and save the life of his slave.

The seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.

And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Then He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.”

And He said to His disciples, “For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, as to what you will eat; nor for your body, as to what you will put on.

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.

Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

A ruler questioned Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

who will not receive many times as much at this time and in the age to come, eternal life.”

“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;

In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.

so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst.

For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.

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

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

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

For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.

and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

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

He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.

I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

Peter *said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for You.”

Jesus *answered, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.

Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.

This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

‘You have made known to me the ways of life;You will make me full of gladness with Your presence.’

but put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses.

“Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life.”

“In humiliation His judgment was taken away;Who will relate His generation?For His life is removed from the earth.”

When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, “Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life.”

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;

But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, “Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.”

But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.

Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, “Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day.”

“So then, all Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

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

(as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.

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

For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;

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