Reference: Life
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In the Bible, is either natural, Ge 3:17; spiritual, that of the renewed soul, Ro 8:6; or eternal, a holy and blissful immortality, Joh 3:36; Ro 6:23. Christ is the great Author of natural life, Col 1:16; and also of spiritual and eternal life; Joh 14:6; 6:47. He has purchased these by laying down his own life; and gives them freely to his people, Joh 10:11,28. He is the spring of all their spiritual life on earth, Ga 2:20; will raise them up at the last day; and make them partakers for ever of his own life, Joh 11:25; 14:19.
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And He said to Adam, "Because you listened to your wife's voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'Do not eat from it': The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life.
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
"I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish-ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.
Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
"In a little while the world will see Me no longer, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live too.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.
and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
because by Him everything was created, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities- all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Easton
generally of physical life (Ge 2:7; Lu 16:25, etc.); also used figuratively (1) for immortality (Heb 7:16); (2) conduct or manner of life (Ro 6:4); (3) spiritual life or salvation (Joh 3:16-17,18,36); (4) eternal life (Mt 19:16-17; Joh 3:15); of God and Christ as the absolute source and cause of all life (Joh 1:4; 5:26,39; 11:25; 12:50).
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Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Just then someone came up and asked Him, "Teacher, what good must I do to have eternal life?" "Why do you ask Me about what is good?" He said to him. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
" 'Son,' Abraham said, 'remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life. "For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. read more. For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.
You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live.
I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."
Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in a new way of life.
Hastings
LIFE
I. In the OT
The term 'life' in English Version is used, with a few unimportant exceptions, as the equivalent of one or other of two Heb. expressions: (1) chai, or mostly in plur. chayyim; (2) nephesh. The Septuagint makes a general distinction between these two, by usually rendering the former as z
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So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. [He also created] every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the midst of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
This is a permanent statute throughout your generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or any blood."
If anyone eats animal fat from a fire offering presented to the Lord, the person who eats [it] must be cut off from his people.
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,
"Go to the hill country so that the men pursuing you won't find you," she said to them. "Hide yourselves there for three days until they return; afterwards, go on your way."
The priests carrying the ark of the Lord's covenant stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed on dry ground until the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan.
Some reported to Saul: "Look, the troops are sinning against the Lord by eating [meat] with the blood [still in it.]" Saul said, "You have been unfaithful. Roll a large stone over here at once."
I give up! I will not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
There is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not die.
When a man dies, will he come back to life? [If so,] I would wait all the days of my struggle until my relief comes.
He is like a tree planted beside streams of water that bears its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
Who is the man who delights in life, loving a long life to enjoy what is good?
Your righteousness is like the highest mountain; Your judgments, like the deepest sea. Lord, You preserve man and beast.
They are filled from the abundance of Your house; You let them drink from Your refreshing stream,
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who hold on to her are happy.
For the one who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything. There is no longer a reward for them because the memory of them is forgotten.
Whatever your hands find to do, do with [all] your strength, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.
and the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
and the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Then a shoot will grow from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
I said: I will never see the Lord, the Lord in the land of the living; I will not look on humanity any longer with the inhabitants of what is passing away.
For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, and some to shame and eternal contempt.
How the animals groan! The herds of cattle wander in confusion since they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep suffer punishment.
Even the wild animals cry out to You, for the river beds are dried up, and fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness.
Then he issued a decree in Nineveh: By order of the king and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.
Should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot distinguish between their right and their left, as well as many animals?"
"You have heard that it was said to our ancestors, Do not murder , and whoever murders will be subject to judgment.
"Don't collect for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
So don't worry, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?'
How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.
How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.
Aren't two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's consent.
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds."
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.
"Why do you ask Me about what is good?" He said to him. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
"Why do you ask Me about what is good?" He said to him. "There is only One who is good. If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
And everyone who has left houses, brothers or sisters, father or mother, children, or fields because of My name will receive 100 times more and will inherit eternal life.
"And the King will answer them, 'I assure you: Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.'
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me and the gospel will save it.
And if your hand causes your downfall, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and go to hell-the unquenchable fire, [
As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before Him, and asked Him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
who will not receive 100 times more, now at this time-houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions-and eternal life in the age to come.
who will not receive 100 times more, now at this time-houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions-and eternal life in the age to come.
As for the seed that fell among thorns, these are the ones who, when they have heard, go on their way and are choked with worries, riches, and pleasures of life, and produce no mature fruit.
A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years, who had spent all she had on doctors yet could not be healed by any,
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will save it.
Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God's sight.
He then told them, "Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one's life is not in the abundance of his possessions."
"But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life is demanded of you. And the things you have prepared-whose will they be?'
The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the estate I have coming to me.' So he distributed the assets to them.
All things were created through Him, and apart from Him not one thing was created that has been created. Life was in Him, and that life was the light of men.
The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hands. The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
Jesus answered, "If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would ask Him, and He would give you living water."
But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again-ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life."
"I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.
"I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.
A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance.
The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One You have sent-Jesus Christ.
This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One You have sent-Jesus Christ.
Neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives everyone life and breath and all things.
Since by the one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.
If we have placed our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.
and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
For me, living is Christ and dying is gain.
Hold firmly the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn't run in vain or labor for nothing.
because by Him everything was created, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities- all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and by Him all things hold together.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
Older men are to be self-controlled, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance.
"Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
down the middle of the broad street [of the city]. On both sides of the river was the tree of life bearing 12 kinds of fruit, producing its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for healing the nations,
Morish
Life is that by which a created being enjoys the place in which the Creator has set it. God breathed into man's nostrils 'the breath of life; and man became a living soul.' Ge 2:7. Sin having come in, this life is forfeited and God claims it, saying, "surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man." Ge 9:5. This instituted capital punishment for murder, which law has never been rescinded or altered.
Scripture recognises a difference between 'life' in a moral sense and 'existence,' as seen in the passage, "What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?" Ps 34:12. Here is a man desiring life, desiring to enjoy life. This answers the objection of those who, wishing to deny eternal punishment, say that 'living for ever' is only spoken of the Christian, as in Joh 6:51,58. True, but many other scriptures prove that the wicked will have an eternal existence.
Man, in his natural state, is regarded as morally dead in sins, and as needing to be quickened by the power of God; or as living in sins and needing to accept death in order to live in Christ, as in the Epistle to the Romans.
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Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man's brother for a man's life.
Who is the man who delights in life, loving a long life to enjoy what is good?
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh."
This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate-and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."