Life
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Life’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 174 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Genesis 2:7 OT
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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Job 27:3 OT
(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
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Genesis 2:9 OT
Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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Genesis 3:22 OT
Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”
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Genesis 3:24 OT
So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
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She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
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Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
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He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.
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Exodus 20:12 OT
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.
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You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
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The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun? One generation goes, and…
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I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity. I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?” I searched in my heart how to cheer…
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For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and…
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Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.…
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Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil. Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter…
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There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men: a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an…
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A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take…
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So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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Luke 14:26 NT
“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.
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For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
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Mark 8:37 NT
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
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He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.