'Live' in the Bible

Then you will live in the land that I gave your fathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”I replied, “Lord God, only You know.”

This is what the Lord God says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.

He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man. Say to it: This is what the Lord God says: Breath, come from the four winds and breathe into these slain so that they may live!”

I will put My Spirit in you, and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I am Yahweh. I have spoken, and I will do it.” This is the declaration of the Lord.

“They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live in it forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

After a long time you will be summoned. In the last years you will enter a land that has been restored from war and regathered from many peoples to the mountains of Israel, which had long been a ruin. They were brought out from the peoples, and all of them now live securely.

in order to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against ruins now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have been acquiring cattle and possessions and who live at the center of the world.’

“I will send fire against Magog and those who live securely on the coasts and islands. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

They will feel remorse for their disgrace and all the unfaithfulness they committed against Me, when they live securely in their land with no one to frighten them.

There will be another area 8⅓ miles long and 3⅓ miles wide for the Levites who minister in the temple; it will be their possession for towns to live in.

Every kind of living creature that swarms will live wherever the river flows, and there will be a huge number of fish because this water goes there. Since the water will become fresh, there will be life everywhere the river goes.

The Chaldeans spoke to the king (Aramaic begins here): “May the king live forever. Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”

Wherever people live—or wild animals, or birds of the air—He has handed them over to you and made you ruler over them all. You are the head of gold.

They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “May the king live forever.

King Nebuchadnezzar, To those of every people, nation, and language, who live in all the earth: May your prosperity increase.

You will be driven away from people to live with the wild animals. You will feed on grass like cattle and be drenched with dew from the sky for seven periods of time, until you acknowledge that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and He gives it to anyone He wants.

You will be driven away from people to live with the wild animals, and you will feed on grass like cattle for seven periods of time, until you acknowledge that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and He gives it to anyone He wants.”

Because of the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen came to the banquet hall. “May the king live forever,” she said. “Don’t let your thoughts terrify you or your face be pale.

So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said to him, “May King Darius live forever.

Then Daniel spoke with the king: “May the king live forever.

Then King Darius wrote to those of every people, nation, and language who live in all the earth: “May your prosperity abound.

I said to her, “You must live with me many days. Don’t be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way toward you.”

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.

He will revive us after two days,and on the third day He will raise us upso we can live in His presence.

I have been Yahweh your Godever since the land of Egypt.I will make you live in tents again,as in the festival days.

The people will return and live beneath his shade.They will grow grainand blossom like the vine.His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

The Lord says:As the shepherd snatches two legsor a piece of an earfrom the lion’s mouth,so the Israelites who live in Samariawill be rescuedwith only the corner of a bedor the cushion of a couch.

For the Lord says to the house of Israel:Seek Me and live!

Seek Yahweh and live,or He will spread like firethroughout the house of Joseph;it will consume everything,with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

Therefore, because you trample on the poorand exact a grain tax from him,you will never live in the houses of cut stoneyou have built;you will never drink the winefrom the lush vineyardsyou have planted.

Seek good and not evilso that you may live,and the Lord, the God of Hosts,will be with you,as you have claimed.

Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,you who live in clefts of the rockin your home on the heights,who say to yourself,“Who can bring me down to the ground?”

And now, Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind. The sun beat down so much on Jonah’s head that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, “It’s better for me to die than to live.”

I will again bring a conqueroragainst you who live in Mareshah.The nobility of Israel will come to Adullam.

He will stand and shepherd themin the strength of Yahweh,in the majestic name of Yahweh His God.They will live securely,for then His greatness will extendto the ends of the earth.

Shepherd Your people with Your staff,the flock that is Your possession.They live alone in a woodlandsurrounded by pastures.Let them graze in Bashan and Gileadas in ancient times.

The mountains quake before Him,and the hills melt;the earth trembles at His presence—the world and all who live in it.

Look, his ego is inflated;he is without integrity.But the righteous one will live by his faith.

Since you have plundered many nations,all the peoples who remain will plunder you—because of human bloodshedand violence against lands, cities,and all who live in them.

For your violence against Lebanonwill overwhelm you;the destruction of animals will terrify youbecause of your human bloodshed and violenceagainst lands, cities, and all who live in them.

Their wealth will become plunderand their houses a ruin.They will build houses but never live in them,plant vineyards but never drink their wine.

Therefore, as I live—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts,the God of Israel—Moab will be like Sodomand the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place overgrown with weeds,a salt pit, and a perpetual wasteland.The remnant of My people will plunder them;the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.

“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

“Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?

The Lord says this: “I will return to Zion and live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, the mountain of the Lord of Hosts, and the Holy Mountain.”

I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem. They will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”

A mongrel people will live in Ashdod,and I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.

Though I sow them among the nations,they will remember Me in the distant lands;they and their children will live and return.

People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.

But He answered, “It is written:Man must not live on bread alonebut on every word that comesfrom the mouth of God.”

He left Nazareth behind and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali.

The people who live in darknesshave seen a great light,and for those living in the shadowland of death,light has dawned.

As He was telling them these things, suddenly one of the leaders came and knelt down before Him, saying, “My daughter is near death, but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”

and kept begging Him, “My little daughter is at death’s door. Come and lay Your hands on her so she can get well and live.”

Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands?”

For they all gave out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she possessed—all she had to live on.”

to shine on those who live in darknessand the shadow of death,to guide our feet into the way of peace.

But Jesus answered him, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone.”

What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft robes? Look, those who are splendidly dressed and live in luxury are in royal palaces.

“You’ve answered correctly,” He told him. “Do this and you will live.”

Or those 18 that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed—do you think they were more sinful than all the people who live in Jerusalem?

For all these people have put in gifts out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

like a trap. For it will come on all who live on the face of the whole earth.

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

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.”

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

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

“In a little while the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live too.

“For it is written in the Book of Psalms:Let his dwelling become desolate;let no one live in it; andLet someone else take his position.

Parthians, Medes, Elamites; those who live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

saying, “What should we do with these men? For an obvious sign, evident to all who live in Jerusalem, has been done through them, and we cannot deny it!

“Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this land you now live in.

The God who made the world and everything in it—He is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in shrines made by hands.

From one man He has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.

For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

They listened to him up to this word. Then they raised their voices, shouting, “Wipe this person off the earth—it’s a disgrace for him to live!”

Then Festus said: “King Agrippa and all men present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish community has appealed to me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he should not live any longer.

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man is probably a murderer, and though he has escaped the sea, Justice does not allow him to live!”

For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,

So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,

for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.

If possible, on your part, live at peace with everyone.

If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

For it is written:As I live, says the Lord,every knee will bow to Me,and every tongue will give praise to God.

But I (not the Lord) say to the rest: If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not leave her.

Also, if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not leave her husband.

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.

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.

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

as unknown yet recognized;as dying and look—we live;as being disciplined yet not killed;

I don’t say this to condemn you, for I have already said that you are in our hearts, to live together and to die together.

In fact, He was crucified in weakness, but He lives by God’s power. For we also are weak in Him, yet toward you we will live with Him by God’s power.