Life, Natural

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• Acts 20:24 NT

  But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

• Romans 16:4 NT

  who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

• 1 John 3:16 NT

  By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

• Psalms 103:4 OT

  who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,

• John 2:6 NT

  Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

• Genesis 48:15 OT

  He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

• Ecclesiastes 2:17 OT

  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.

• Luke 12:15 NT

  He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

• Job 9:26 OT

  They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

• Genesis 47:9 OT

  Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their…

• Psalms 90:9 OT

  For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

• Job 9:25 OT

  “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

• Psalms 39:5 OT

  Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

• Isaiah 38:18 OT

  For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

• Psalms 73:20 OT

  As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

• Psalms 90:5 OT

  You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

• James 4:14 NT

  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.

• Isaiah 38:12 OT

  My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

• Job 7:6 OT

  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

• Job 14:2 OT

  He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

• 1 Peter 1:24 NT

  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;

• 2 Samuel 14:14 OT

  For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

• Job 7:7 OT

  Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

• Deuteronomy 32:29 OT

  Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!