Life

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Matthew 16:25 NT

  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

• Luke 9:24 NT

  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it.

• John 12:25 NT

  He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

• Job 3:1-26 OT

  After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. Job answered: “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it,…

• Job 7:1-3 OT

  “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages, so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are…

• Job 10:18-20 OT

  “ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. Aren’t my days few? Stop!…

• Jeremiah 20:14-18 OT

  Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad. Let that man be as the cities which…

• 1 Kings 19:1-8 OT

  Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of…

• Jonah 4:8 OT

  When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

• Jonah 4:9 OT

  God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”

• Matthew 20:28 NT

  even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

• Mark 10:45 NT

  For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

• 1 Timothy 2:6 NT

  who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,

• Genesis 18:27 OT

  Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

• 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…

• 1 Samuel 20:3 OT

  David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between…

• 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.

• 1 Chronicles 29:15 OT

  For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

• Job 4:19-21 OT

  How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. Isn’t their tent cord plucked…

• Job 7:6-10 OT

  My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good. The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be. As the…

• Job 7:17 OT

  What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

• Job 8:9 OT

  (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

• Job 9:25 OT

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

• Job 9:26 OT

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