'Living' in the Bible

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.