'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."
He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, and the world did not recognize Him.
"In most solemn truth," answered Jesus, "I tell you that 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 the Sadducees maintain that there is no resurrection, and neither angel nor spirit; but the Pharisees acknowledge the existence of both.
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;
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.
And the lesson which the Holy Spirit teaches is this--that the way into the true Holy place is not yet open so long as the outer tent still remains in existence.
Through faith we understand that the worlds came into being, and still exist, at the command of God, so that what is seen does not owe its existence to that which is visible.
saying, "It is fitting, O our Lord and God, That we should ascribe unto Thee the glory and the honor and the power; For Thou didst create all things, And because it was Thy will they came into existence, and were created."