'Existence' in the Bible

So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.

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 world of unrighteousness, the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire {the course of human existence}, being set on fire by hell.