1734 verses about Life

Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here, who will in no way taste of death, until they see God’s Kingdom.”

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; Deuteronomy 6:5 and your neighbor as yourself.” Leviticus 19:18

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”

Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Isaiah 60:1 He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’ ?”

A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever.

Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM. Exodus 3:14 ”

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

I am the good shepherd. Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22 The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, Isaiah 53:7-8 that I may take it again.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.

Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.