'Lives' in the Bible

For a fool speaks foolishnessand his mind plots iniquity.He lives in a godless wayand speaks falsely about the Lord.He leaves the hungry emptyand deprives the thirsty of drink.

The one who lives righteouslyand speaks rightly,who refuses gain from extortion,whose hand never takes a bribe,who stops his ears from listening to murderous plotsand shuts his eyes to avoid endorsing evil—

The Lord will save me;we will play stringed instrumentsall the days of our livesat the house of the Lord.

He will enter into peace—they will rest on their beds—everyone who lives uprightly.

For the High and Exalted Onewho lives forever, whose name is Holy says this:“I live in a high and holy place,and with the oppressed and lowly of spirit,to revive the spirit of the lowlyand revive the heart of the oppressed.

They will not build and others live in them;they will not plant and others eat.For My people’s lives will belike the lifetime of a tree.My chosen ones will fully enjoythe work of their hands.

then you can swear, “As the Lord lives,”in truth, in justice, and in righteousness,then the nations will be blessed by Himand will pride themselves in Him.

When they say, “As the Lord lives,”they are swearing falsely.

If they will diligently learn the ways of My people—to swear by My name, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ just as they taught My people to swear by Baal—they will be built up among My people.

“However, take note! The days are coming”—the Lord’s declaration—“when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’

but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north and from all the other lands where He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their ancestors.

He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;he cannot see when good comesbut dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,in a salt land where no one lives.

Afterward’”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“‘King Zedekiah of Judah, his officers, and the people—those in this city who survive the plague, the sword, and the famine—I will hand over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, to their enemies, yes, to those who want to take their lives. He will put them to the sword; he won’t spare them or show pity or compassion.’

“The days are coming”—the Lord’s declaration—“when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’

but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I had banished them.’ They will dwell once more in their own land.”

King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in private, “As the Lord lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you or hand you over to these men who want to take your life.”

“Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all you Judeans who live in the land of Egypt: ‘I have sworn by My great name, says Yahweh, that My name will never again be invoked by anyone of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord God lives.”

Flee! Save your lives!Be like a juniper bush in the wilderness.

Leave Babylon;save your lives, each of you!Don’t perish because of her guilt.For this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance—He will pay her what she deserves.

Her cities have become a desolation,a dry and arid land,a land where no one lives,where no human being passes through.

Come out from among her, My people!Save your lives, each of you,from the Lord’s burning anger.

ג GimelJudah has gone into exilefollowing affliction and harsh slavery;she lives among the nationsbut finds no place to rest.All her pursuers have overtaken herin narrow places.

ל LamedThey cry out to their mothers:Where is the grain and wine?as they faint like the woundedin the streets of the city,as their lives fade awayin the arms of their mothers.

ק QofArise, cry out in the nightfrom the first watch of the night.Pour out your heart like waterbefore the Lord’s presence.Lift up your hands to Himfor the lives of your childrenwho are fainting from hungeron the corner of every street.

We secure our food at the risk of our livesbecause of the sword in the wilderness.

Why have You forgotten us forever,abandoned us for our entire lives?

and say: This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the women who sew magic bands on the wrist of every hand and who make veils for the heads of people of every height in order to ensnare lives. Will you ensnare the lives of My people but preserve your own?

Pharaoh will not help him with his great army and vast horde in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “Instead, don’t I take pleasure when he turns from his ways and lives?

“Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives in order to make profit dishonestly.

However, if the watchman sees the sword coming but doesn’t blow the trumpet, so that the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes and takes away their lives, then they have been taken away because of their iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.

In whatever tribe the foreigner lives, you will assign his inheritance there.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, “Praise to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! He sent His angel and rescued His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

But at the end of those days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity returned to me. Then I praised the Most High and honored and glorified Him who lives forever:For His dominion is an everlasting dominion,and His kingdom is from generation to generation.

Then I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river. He raised both his hands toward heaven and swore by Him who lives eternally that it would be for a time, times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people is shattered, all these things will be completed.

For this reason the land mourns,and everyone who lives in it languishes,along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky;even the fish of the sea disappear.

Israel, if you act promiscuously,don’t let Judah become guilty!Do not go to Gilgalor make a pilgrimage to Beth-aven,and do not swear an oath: As the Lord lives!

Those who swear by the guilt of Samariaand say, “As your god lives, Dan,”or “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”—they will fall, never to rise again.

This is the self-assured citythat lives in security,that thinks to herself:I exist, and there is no one else.What a desolation she has become,a place for wild animals to lie down!Everyone who passes by herjeers and shakes his fist.

By your endurance gain your lives.

But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.

Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die—ever. Do you believe this?”

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. The Father who lives in Me does His works.

who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

and told them, “Men, I can see that this voyage is headed toward damage and heavy loss, not only of the cargo and the ship but also of our lives.”

Now I urge you to take courage, because there will be no loss of any of your lives, but only of the ship.

For in light of the fact that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in light of the fact that He lives, He lives to God.

Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

For example, a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law regarding the husband.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

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 none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.

Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you?

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.

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.

We cared so much for you that we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.

Guard, through the Holy Spirit who lives in us, that good thing entrusted to you.

and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant.

In the one case, men who will die receive tenths, but in the other case, Scripture testifies that he lives.

Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

Remember your leaders who have spoken God’s word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of their lives, imitate their faith.

when they observe your pure, reverent lives.

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers.

I know where you live—where Satan’s throne is! And you are holding on to My name and did not deny your faith in Me, even in the days of Antipas, My faithful witness who was killed among you, where Satan lives.

Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, the One who lives forever and ever,

the 24 elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, worship the One who lives forever and ever, cast their crowns before the throne, and say:

He swore an oath by the One who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it: “There will no longer be an interval of time,

They conquered himby the blood of the Lamband by the word of their testimony,for they did not love their livesin the face of death.

One of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven gold bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever.