'Existence' in the Bible

Alas for you! for you are like the tombs which lie hidden, and the people who walk over them are not aware of their existence."

All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him not even one thing was made that has come into being.

What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.

He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, and the world did not recognize Him.

John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.

This is he of whom I said, One is coming after me who is put over me because he was in existence before me.

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!"

and yet by His beneficence He has not left His existence unattested--His beneficence, I mean, in sending you rain from Heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and joyfulness."

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

For the Sadducees maintain that there is no resurrection, and neither angel nor spirit; but the Pharisees acknowledge the existence of both.

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

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.

Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence--God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist;

But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;

In this matter, then, of eating food offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world [it has no real existence], and that there is no God but one.

If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you; for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal of my Apostleship.

For just as woman originates from man, so also man comes into existence through woman, but everything springs originally from God.

So that if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old state of things has passed away; a new state of things has come into existence.

For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

for our commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour,

For it was fitting for God [that is, an act worthy of His divine nature] that He, for whose sake are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the author and founder of their salvation perfect through suffering [bringing to maturity the human experience necessary for Him to be perfectly equipped for His office as High Priest].

They serve as a pattern and foreshadowing of [what has its true existence and reality in] the heavenly things (sanctuary). For when Moses was about to erect the tabernacle, he was warned by God, saying, “See that you make it all [exactly] according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.”

Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.

The Holy Spirit [was] making this clear, [that] the way [into] the holy place [was] not yet revealed, [while] the first tent was still in existence,

By faith we understand the worlds were created by the word of God, in order that what is seen did not come into existence from what is visible.

And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence -- and is set on fire by hell.

For they willingly forget [the fact] that the heavens existed long ago by the word of God, and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, honor, and power, because you created all things; they came into existence and were created because of your will."

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades (the realm of the dead) surrendered the dead who were in them; and they were judged and sentenced, every one according to their deeds.

Then death and Hades [the realm of the dead] were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire [the eternal separation from God].