Life
150 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
19 sections
- (Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Elijah
- (Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Hated
- (Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Jeremiah
- (Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Job
- (Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Jonah
- (Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Vanity of
- Breath of
- Brevity and Uncertainty of
- Called Spirit of God
- Everlasting
- from God
- Life of Christ, a Ransom
- Long Life Promised to Obedient Children
- Spiritual
- The One Who Loses It Will Save It
- To be Hated for Christ's Sake
- To Those Who Keep the Commandments
- Tree of
- What Can a Man Give in Exchange For
(Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Elijah
- 1 Kings 19:1–8 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. …
(Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Hated
- Ecclesiastes 2:17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
(Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 20:14–18 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. …
(Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Job
- Job 3:1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
- Job 7:1–3 “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? …
- Job 10:18–20 Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! …
(Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Jonah
- Jonah 4:8–9 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.” …
(Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Vanity of
- Ecclesiastes 1:1 These are the words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
- Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1 To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
- Ecclesiastes 4:1 Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
- Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Ecclesiastes 6:1 There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:
- Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
Breath of
- Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Brevity and Uncertainty of
- Genesis 18:27 Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord— though I am but dust and ashes—
- Genesis 47:9 “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- 1 Samuel 20:3 But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is …
- 2 Samuel 14:14 For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Job 4:19–21 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth! …
- Job 7:6–10 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. …
- Job 7:17 What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
- Job 8:9 For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
- Job 9:25–26 My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good. …
- Job 10:9 Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- Job 10:20–21 Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, …
- Job 13:12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- Job 13:25 Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
- Job 13:28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
- Job 14:1–2 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. …
- Job 17:1 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
- Psalm 22:29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives.
- Psalm 39:4–6 “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is. …
- Psalm 39:11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Psalm 78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
- Psalm 89:47–48 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men! …
- Psalm 90:3 You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
- Psalm 90:5–6 You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— …
- Psalm 90:9–10 For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh. …
- Psalm 102:11 My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Psalm 103:14–16 For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. …
- Psalm 144:3–4 O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him? …
- Psalm 146:4 When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
- Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
- Ecclesiastes 1:4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Isaiah 2:22 Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
- Isaiah 38:12 My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Isaiah 40:6–7 A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. …
- Isaiah 40:24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
- Isaiah 50:9 Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
- Isaiah 51:8 For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
- Isaiah 51:12 “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
- Isaiah 64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
- James 1:10–11 But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. …
- James 4:14 You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- 1 Peter 1:24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
Called Spirit of God
- Job 27:3 as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
Everlasting
- Psalm 21:4 He asked You for life, and You granted it— length of days, forever and ever.
- Psalm 121:8 The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
- 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.
- Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- 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.
- Matthew 19:16–21 Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?” …
- 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.
- Matthew 25:46 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Mark 10:30 will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age — houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions — and in the age to come, eternal life.
- Luke 18:18 Then a certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
- Luke 18:30 will fail to receive many times more in this age — and in the age to come, eternal life.”
- Luke 20:36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.
- John 3:14–16 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, …
- 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.”
- John 5:24–25 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. …
- 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.
- 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,
- 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 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.
- John 6:50–58 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. …
- John 6:68 Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
- John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
- John 10:27–28 My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. …
- John 12:25 Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
- John 12:50 And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
- John 17:2–3 For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him. …
- 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.
- 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.
- Romans 2:7 To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
- 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 6:22–23 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. …
- 1 Corinthians 15:53–54 For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. …
- 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.
- 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.
- 1 Timothy 1:16 But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- Titus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- Titus 3:7 so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
- 1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
- 1 John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.
- 1 John 5:11–13 And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. …
- 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.
- Jude 21 keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
- Revelation 1:18 the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
from God
- Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
- Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 30:20 and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
- Deuteronomy 32:39–40 See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand. …
- 1 Samuel 2:6 The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
- Job 27:3 as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
- Job 34:14–15 If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath, …
- Psalm 22:29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives.
- Psalm 30:3 O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
- Psalm 68:20 Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.
- Psalm 104:30 When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Isaiah 38:16–20 O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live. …
- Acts 17:25–28 Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. …
- Romans 4:17 As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
- 1 Timothy 6:13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:
- James 4:15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
Life of Christ, a Ransom
- Matthew 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- 1 Timothy 2:6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all — the testimony that was given at just the right time.
Long Life Promised to Obedient Children
- Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 5:16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Spiritual
- John 3:3–16 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” …
- John 5:24–26 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. …
- John 5:40 yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
- 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 6:33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
- John 6:35 Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
- 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.
- John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
- John 11:25–26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. …
- John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- John 17:2–3 For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him. …
- John 20:31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
- Romans 6:4–5 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life. …
- Romans 6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
- Romans 6:11 So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 6:13 Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
- Romans 6:22–23 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. …
- Romans 8:10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- 1 John 1:1–2 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands — this is the Word of life. …
The One Who Loses It Will Save It
- Matthew 10:39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
- Matthew 16:25–26 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. …
- Luke 9:24 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
- John 12:25 Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
To be Hated for Christ's Sake
- Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters — yes, even his own life — he cannot be My disciple.
To Those Who Keep the Commandments
- Deuteronomy 4:40 Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
- Deuteronomy 22:7 You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
Tree of
- Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 3:22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
- Genesis 3:24 So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.
- Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
- Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a 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.
What Can a Man Give in Exchange For
- Matthew 16:26 What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Mark 8:37 Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.