Life, Natural

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 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.

• Acts 17:28 NT

  ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

• Psalms 36:6 OT

  Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

• Psalms 66:9 OT

  who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.

• Job 12:10 OT

  in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

• Daniel 5:23 OT

  but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and…

• Genesis 2:17 OT

  but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

• Genesis 3:17-19 OT

  To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days…

• Exodus 20:13 OT

  “You shall not murder.

• Ecclesiastes 6:12 OT

  For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

• Job 7:1 OT

  “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

• Job 14:5 OT

  Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

• Job 14:1 OT

  “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

• Psalms 89:47 OT

  Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

• James 4:13-15 NT

  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” 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…

• Psalms 63:3 OT

  Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

• Job 2:4 OT

  Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

• Matthew 6:25 NT

  Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

• Proverbs 13:3 OT

  He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

• Isaiah 38:2-5 OT

  Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept…

• James 5:15 NT

  and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

• Deuteronomy 30:20 OT

  to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

• 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.

• Proverbs 4:10 OT

  Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.