'Living' in the Bible

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the ideas and thoughts of the heart.

Mortal men collect tithes, but we are informed by Scripture that Melchizedek keeps on living.

Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them.

Now if He were [still living] on earth, He would not be a priest at all, for there are priests who offer the gifts [to God] in accordance with the Law.

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For a will is valid only when people die, since it is never in force while the one who made it is living.

By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.

By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.

Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;

(people of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and [living in] caves and holes in the ground.

For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems sad and painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness [right standing with God and a lifestyle and attitude that seeks conformity to God’s will and purpose].

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Remember your leaders [for it was they] who brought you the word of God; and consider the result of their conduct [the outcome of their godly lives], and imitate their faith [their conviction that God exists and is the Creator and Ruler of all things, the Provider of eternal salvation through Christ, and imitate their reliance on God with absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness].