'Life' in the Bible

But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.

And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present.

And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.

Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus to life after you killed him by hanging him on a tree.

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

and he asked for letters [of authority] from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there belonging to the Way [believers, followers of Jesus the Messiah], men and women alike, he could arrest them and bring them bound [with chains] to Jerusalem.

But they kept trying to take his life. On learning this, the brethren brought him down to Caesarea, and then sent him by sea to Tarsus.

Among the disciples at Jaffa was a woman called Tabitha, or, as the name may be translated, 'Dorcas.' Her life was wholly devoted to the good and charitable actions which she was constantly doing.

God raised Him [to life] on the third day and caused Him to be plainly seen,

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.

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.’

but He whom God raised [to life] did not experience decay [in the grave].

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ.

Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

He caused to spring from one forefather people of every race, for them to live on the whole surface of the earth, and marked out for them an appointed span of life and the boundaries of their homes;

For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

Even some officials of the province of Asia who were his friends sent him a message urging him not to risk his life in the theater.

And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.

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

But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control [honorable behavior, personal integrity], and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for now, and when I find [a convenient] time I will send for you.”

My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;

who knew me before from the outset of my life, if they would bear witness, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again?

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.

But the centurion, wanting to save Paul's life, prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,

But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,

[I am writing] to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called to be saints (God’s people) and set apart for a sanctified life, [that is, set apart for God and His purpose]: Grace to you and peace [inner calm and spiritual well-being] from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

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.

He was sentenced to death because of our sins and raised to life to justify us.

For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

Now it is an extraordinary thing for one to willingly give his life even for an upright man, though perhaps for a good man [one who is noble and selfless and worthy] someone might even dare to die.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have become one with Him [permanently united] in the likeness of His death, we will also certainly be [one with Him and share fully] in the likeness of His resurrection.

because we know that Christ, having come back to life, is no longer liable to die.

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

Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.

But now we have been released from the Law by dying to what enslaved us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit, not under the old writings.

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

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

and those who are in the flesh [living a life that caters to sinful appetites and impulses] cannot please God.

However, you are not [living] in the flesh [controlled by the sinful nature] but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God lives in you [directing and guiding you]. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him [and is not a child of God].

And if Christ be 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.

So then, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but not to our flesh [our human nature, our worldliness, our sinful capacity], to live according to the [impulses of the] flesh [our nature without the Holy Spirit]—

For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

For I consider [from the standpoint of faith] that the sufferings of the present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us!

Who is there to condemn them? Christ Jesus died, or rather has risen to life again. He is also at the right hand of God, and is interceding for us.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law as follows: "The person who obeys these things will find life by them."

that if with your mouth you confess Jesus as Lord and in your heart believe that God brought Him back to life, you shall be saved.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

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

For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.

Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

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.