40 Bible Verses about Living For God

For life to me is Christ, and if I die, it would be gain.

For if we live, it is for the Lord's [honor]; or if we die, it is for the Lord's [honor]. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

For you died [with Christ, See 2:20], and your life is [now] hidden with Christ in [fellowship with] God.

Life existed in Him; and that Life [was what] enlightened mankind [spiritually].

The person who claims he is continuing to live in [fellowship with] Jesus should also live the way He did.

[So], He is not God to those who are dead, but [He is] God to those who are alive. You are seriously mistaken."

Do you people not know that you are God's Temple [i.e., the church. See I Pet. 2:5; I Tim. 3:15], and that the Holy Spirit of God lives in you [i.e., collectively]?

You people show [i.e., by your conversions] that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us [i.e., the result of our ministry], not written with ink but with the Holy Spirit of the living God; not on stone tablets [i.e., as in the case with Moses' ministry], but on tablets of the human heart. [See Jer. 31:33; Heb. 8:10].

And we apostles have believed [in you] and know that you are God's Holy One."

For all of you are children of God through your faith in Christ Jesus [as God's only Son].

So, He is not God to those who are dead, but [He is] God to those who are alive, for to God, all people are alive."

[We pray for you] to live a life deserving of the Lord, pleasing to Him in every way, producing fruit in every good deed and growing in the knowledge of God.

And we have known [with certainty] and have believed [with assurance] that God has truly loved us. God's [very nature] is love and the person who [continually] loves [Him and others] lives in [fellowship with] God [continually], and God [continually] lives in that person's heart.

[Hosea 1:10 says], "And it will happen that in the very place where people were told, 'You people do not belong to me [i.e., God],' they will be called children of the living God."

I am Abraham's God, and Isaac's God and Jacob's God.' [So], He is not God to those who are [physically] dead, but [He is] God to those who are [still] alive."

For this is the reason that Christ died and [now] lives again, so that He could be Lord of both those who have [already] died and those who are [still] alive.

yet there is [only] one God to us, [and He is] the Father, from whom all things have come, and for whom we live. And [there is only] one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things have come, and through whom we live.

For none of us lives for his own benefit [only], and none of us dies for his own benefit [only].

And Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ [i.e., God's specially chosen one], the Son of the living God."

so that, if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to behave themselves in God's family, which is the church of the living God, the [supporting] column and foundation of the truth.

Jesus answered him, "I am the way [to God], and the truth [to believe], and the life [to live]. No one can go to the Father, except through [believing in] me.

If we live by the [guidance of the] Holy Spirit, we should also walk in [the ways of] the Holy Spirit.

So then, you should no longer live the rest of your lives [to satisfy] the sinful desires of your body, but to do what God wants.

For the Gospel reveals how a person can be made right with God. It is through faith [in Jesus], from beginning to end, just as it is written [Hab. 2:4], "The righteous person will [obtain] life by [his] faith [in God]."

And this is never ending life; that people may know you [as] the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the One whom you have sent.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

For [just] as the Father is Himself [the source of] life, in the same way He gave to His Son also [the power] to be [the source of] life.

I have been crucified [i.e., died] with Christ, and so I am not the one who lives [anymore] but rather, it is Christ who lives in my heart. And [now] my entire life is being lived by trusting in the Son of God [to save and keep me], because He loved me and gave Himself up for me.

So, it is also written [Gen. 2:7], "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam [i.e., Christ], became the Spirit who gives [never ending] life. [See John 5:21].

Just as the living Father has sent me, and I have [physical and spiritual] life because of the Father, so the person who eats me will also have [physical ? and spiritual] life because of me.

Or, do you not know that your [physical] body is a temple [i.e., sanctuary] for the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and who was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourselves,

And whatever you do, whether in [your] words or actions, do everything in the name [i.e., by the authority] of Christ, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

For God's kingdom is not a matter of [impressive] words, but of [spiritual] power.

Even so the Lord directed that those who proclaim the good news [about Christ] should get their living from [preaching] that good news.

Now, may there be honor and praise forever and ever to the eternal King, the immortal, invisible, only God. May it be so.

And after three and a half days, God breathed life into them and they stood up on their feet, and the people who saw them became terrified.

And [in addition], we know that the Son of God has come [in a physical body, See 4:2] and has given us understanding, so that we can know the True One [i.e., God], and that we are in [fellowship with] the True One, even His Son Jesus Christ. This Son is the true God and eternal life.

But if the Spirit of God [truly] lives in your heart, you are not [being controlled] by the flesh, but by the Holy Spirit. But if any person does not have the Spirit of Christ [living in him], he does not belong to Christ.

As obedient children, do not pattern your lives after the evil desires you formerly had when you were ignorant,

[and provides] hope for never ending life. God, who cannot lie, promised this [life] before the beginning of time,