Eternal Life
45 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
33 sections
- Cannot be Inherited by Works
- Christ Is
- Exhortation to Seek
- Given by Christ
- Given by God
- Given in Answer to Prayer
- Given in Christ
- Given: Through Christ
- Given: To all Given to Christ
- Given: To Those Who Believe in Christ
- Given: To Those Who Believe in God
- Given: To Those Who Hate Life for Christ
- Results From: Drinking the Water of Life
- Results From: Eating of the Tree of Life
- Results From: Eating the Bread of Life
- Revealed by Christ
- Revealed in the Scriptures
- Saints are Preserved To
- Saints: Have Hope of
- Saints: Have Promises of
- Saints: Look for the Mercy of God To
- Saints: May Have Assurance of
- Saints: Shall Go Into
- Saints: Shall Inherit
- Saints: Shall Reap, Through the Spirit
- Saints: Shall Reign In
- Saints: Shall Rise To
- Saints: should Lay Hold of
- The Self-Righteous Think to Inherit, by Works
- The Wicked: Have Not
- The Wicked: Judge Themselves Unworthy of
- They Who are Ordained To, Believe the Gospel
- To Know God and Christ Is
Cannot be Inherited by Works
- Romans 2:7 To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
- Romans 3:10–19 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. …
Christ Is
- 1 John 1:2 And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.
- 1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true — in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Exhortation to Seek
- John 6:27 Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
Given by Christ
- John 6:27 Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
- John 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
Given by God
- Psalm 133:3 It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
- Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Given in Answer to Prayer
- Psalm 21:4 He asked You for life, and You granted it— length of days, forever and ever.
Given in Christ
- 1 John 5:11 And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
Given: Through Christ
- Romans 5:21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Given: To all Given to Christ
- John 17:2 For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
Given: To Those Who Believe in Christ
- John 3:15–16 that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life. …
- John 6:40 For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- John 6:47 Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
Given: To Those Who Believe in God
- John 5:24 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
Given: To Those Who Hate Life for Christ
- John 12:25 Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Results From: Drinking the Water of Life
- John 4:14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
Results From: Eating of the Tree of Life
- Revelation 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.
Results From: Eating the Bread of Life
- John 6:50–58 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. …
Revealed by Christ
- John 6:68 Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
- 2 Timothy 1:10 And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
Revealed in the Scriptures
- John 5:39 You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
Saints are Preserved To
- John 10:28–29 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. …
Saints: Have Hope of
Saints: Have Promises of
- 1 Timothy 4:8 For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
- 2 Timothy 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,
- Titus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- 1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
Saints: Look for the Mercy of God To
- Jude 21 keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
Saints: May Have Assurance of
- 2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- 1 John 5:13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
Saints: Shall Go Into
- Matthew 25:46 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Saints: Shall Inherit
- Matthew 19:29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
Saints: Shall Reap, Through the Spirit
- Galatians 6:8 The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
Saints: Shall Reign In
- Daniel 7:18 But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess it forever — yes, forever and ever.’
- Romans 5:17 For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
Saints: Shall Rise To
- Daniel 12:2 And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
- John 5:29 and come out — those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
Saints: should Lay Hold of
- 1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.
- 1 Timothy 6:19 treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
The Self-Righteous Think to Inherit, by Works
- Mark 10:17 As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
The Wicked: Have Not
- 1 John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.
The Wicked: Judge Themselves Unworthy of
- Acts 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
They Who are Ordained To, Believe the Gospel
- Acts 13:48 When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
To Know God and Christ Is
- John 17:3 Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.