'Living' in the Bible

The people living in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land and shadow of death, a light has risen."

"To what can I compare the people living today? They're like little children who sit in the marketplaces and shout to each other,

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment and condemn the people living today, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. But look something greater than Jonah is here!

The queen of the south will stand up and condemn the people living today, because she came from so far away to hear the wisdom of Solomon. But look! Something greater than Solomon is here!"

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God!"

Jesus told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, tax collectors and prostitutes will get into God's kingdom ahead of you! John came to you living a righteous life, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. But even when you saw that, you didn't change your minds at last and believe him."

"I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

Then you say, "If we had been living in the days of our ancestors, we would have had no part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

I tell all of you with certainty, all these things will happen to those living today."

But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest told him, "I command you by the living God to tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God!"

He sighed deeply in his spirit and remarked, "Why do those living today demand a sign? I tell all of you with certainty, no sign will be given to this generation."

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"

In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night.

Jesus continued, "To what may I compare the people living today?

Now as the crowds continued to throng around Jesus, he went on to say, "This people living today are an evil generation. It craves a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah,

The queen of the south will stand up at the judgment and condemn the people living today, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. But look, something greater than Solomon is here!

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment and condemn the people living today, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. But look, something greater than Jonah is here!"

so those living today will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that was shed since the foundation of the world,

What about those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem?

A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all on wild living.

But first he must suffer a great deal and be rejected by those living today.

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, because he considers all people to be alive to him."

While the women remained terrified, bowing their faces to the ground, the men asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living?

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

I'm the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he'll live forever. And the bread 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 also live because of me.

The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart."

Now devout Jews from every nation on earth were living in Jerusalem.

"Men of Judea and everyone living in Jerusalem! You must understand something, so pay close attention to my words. These men are not drunk as you suppose, for it's only nine o'clock in the morning.

They said, "What should we do with these men? For it's obvious to everybody living in Jerusalem that an unmistakable sign has been done by them, and we cannot deny it.

This Moses is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and to our ancestors. He received living truths to give to us,

Now when Peter was going around among all of the disciples, he also visited the saints living in Lydda.

He also ordered us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.

So all of the disciples decided they would send a contribution to the brothers living in Judea, as they were able,

"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their time doing nothing else other than listening to the latest ideas or repeating them.

When this became known to everyone living in Ephesus, Jews and Greeks alike, they all became terrified, and the name of the Lord Jesus began to be held in high honor.

But they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews living among the gentiles to forsake the Law of Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children or observe the customs.

"A certain Ananias, who was a devout man with respect to the Law and who was highly regarded by all the Jews living there,

Up to this point they listened to him, but then they began to shout, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He's not fit to go on living!"

Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

In the same way, you too must continuously consider yourselves dead as far as sin is concerned, but living for God through the Messiah Jesus.

For a married woman is bound by the Law to her husband while he is living, but if her husband dies, she is released from the Law concerning her husband.

So while her husband is living, she will be called an adulterer if she lives with another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from this Law, so that she is not an adulterer if she marries another man.

For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death.

As it is, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me.

But if I do what I don't want to do, I am no longer the one who is doing it, but it is the sin that is living in me.

And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then the one who raised the Messiah from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who lives in you.

In the very place where it was told them, "You are not my people,' they will be called children of the living God."

I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.

For this reason the Messiah died and returned to life, so that he might become the Lord of both the dead and the living.

That's because you are still worldly. As long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, you are worldly and living by human standards, aren't you?

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have to keep on working for a living?

In the same way, the Lord has ordered that those who proclaim the gospel should make their living from the gospel.

This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about the suffering we experienced in Asia. We were so crushed beyond our ability to endure that we even despaired of living.

To some people we are a deadly fragrance, while to others we are a living fragrance. Who is qualified for this?

You are demonstrating that you are the Messiah's letter, produced by our service, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

What agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: "I will live and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people."

I beg you that when I come I will not need to be courageous by daring to oppose some people who think that we are living according to the flesh.

Of course, we are living in the world, but we do not wage war in a world-like way.

Finally, brothers, goodbye. Keep on growing to maturity. Keep listening to my appeals. Continue agreeing with each other and living in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, "Though you are a Jew, you have been living like a gentile and not like a Jew. So how can you insist that the gentiles must live like Jews?"

I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Stop getting drunk with wine, which leads to wild living, but keep on being filled with the Spirit.

For to me, to go on living is the Messiah, and to die is gain.

Now if I continue living, fruitful labor is the result, so I do not know which I would prefer.

For people keep telling us what kind of welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve a living and true God

For now we can go on living, as long as you continue to stand firm in the Lord.

In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not living according to the tradition that they received from us.

We hear that some of you are living in idleness. You are not busy working you are busy interfering in other people's lives!

We order and encourage such people by the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

in case I am delayed, so that you may know how to behave in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

To this end we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, that is, of those who believe.

In the presence of God and the Messiah Jesus, who is going to judge those who are living and those who are dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly appeal to you

It trains us to renounce ungodly living and worldly passions so that we might live sensible, honest, and godly lives in the present age

See to it, my brothers, that no evil, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the living God.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

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

how much more will the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead actions so that we may serve the living God!

the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh),

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who also inherited the same promise,

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels joyfully gathered together,

For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish by the living and everlasting word of God.

As you come to him, the living stone who was rejected by people but was chosen and precious in God's sight,

you, too, as living stones, are building yourselves up into a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, so that you may offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus, the Messiah.

For you spent enough time in the past doing what the gentiles like to do, living in sensuality, sinful desires, drunkenness, wild celebrations, drinking parties, and detestable idolatry.

They insult you now because they are surprised that you are no longer joining them in the same excesses of wild living.

They will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Yet I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I am living in this bodily tent,

If we claim that we have fellowship with him but keep living in darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

But if we keep living in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Everyone who keeps living in sin also practices disobedience. In fact, sin is disobedience.

I was overjoyed to find some of your children living truthfully, just as the Father has commanded us.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are living according to the truth.

the living one. I was dead but look! I am alive forever and ever! I have the keys of Death and Hades.

Because you have obeyed my command to endure, I will keep you from the hour of testing that is coming to the whole world to test those living on the earth.