1734 verses about Life

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.” Habakkuk 2:4

The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.” Leviticus 18:5

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” Deuteronomy 5:16

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Yet, to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

Women received their dead by resurrection. 1 Kings 17:17-23; 2 Kings 4:32-37 Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

who will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;