- Many contexts specify the type of life intended: eternal life, manner of life, life as opposed to death.
- Two major Greek words are used. One is always translated life. The other is usually translated spirit.
- Life passages:
- Matthew 7:14 Narrow is the way that leads to life
- Matthew 18:8 – 9 (Mark 9:43 – 45) If it better to enter into life lame or maimed rather than, having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire.
- Luke 1:75 Serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life.
- Luke 12:15 One’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.
- John 1:4 In Him was life and the life was the light of men
- John 8:12 But shall have the light of life
- John 10:10 I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.
- John 11:25 I am the resurrection and the life.
- John 14:6 I am the way, the truth, and the life.
- John 20:31 That you may have life in His name
- Acts 2:28 You have made known to me the ways of life.
- Acts 3:15 And killed the Prince of life
- Acts 5:20 Speak to the people all the words of this life
- Acts 8:33 His life is taken from the earth
- Acts 11:18 God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life
- Acts 17:25 He gives to all life, breath, and all things
- Romans 5:10 We shall be saved by His life
- Romans 5:17 – 18 …Will reign in life by the One, Jesus Christ…resulting in justification of life.
- Romans 6:4 We also should walk in newness of life
- Romans 7:10 The commandment which was to bring life, I find to bring death.
- Romans 8:2 The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made us free from the law of sin and death
- Romans 8:6 To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace
- Romans 8:10 The Spirit is life because of righteousness
- Romans 8:38 Neither death nor life…shall separate us from the love of God
- Romans 11:15 What will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
- 1 Corinthians 3:22 …whether… life or death…all are yours
- 1 Corinthians 15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ…
- 2 Corinthians 2:16 The aroma of life to life
- 2 Corinthians 4:10 – 12 That the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body
- 2 Corinthians 5:4 That mortality may be swallowed up by life
- Galatians 2:20 It is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God
- Ephesians 4:18 Alienated from the life of God
- Philippians 1:20 Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death
- Philippians 2:16 Holding fast the word of life
- Philippians 4:3 The Book of Life
- Colossians 3:3 – 4 Your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, appears…
- 1 Timothy 2:2 Lead a quiet and peaceable life
- 1 Timothy 4:8 Having a promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come
- 2 Timothy 1:1 According to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus
- 2 Timothy 1:10 Who has abolished death and brought life and immortality through the gospel
- Hebrews 7:3 Having neither beginning of days nor end of life
- James 1:12 He shall receive the crown of life
- James 4:14 What is your life. It is even a vapor
- 1 Peter 3:7 Heirs together of the grace of life
- 1 Peter 3:10 He who would love life and see good days…
- 2 Peter 1:3 All things that pertain to life and godliness
- 1 John 1:1 – 2 We have handled the Word of life…and the life was manifested
- 1 John 3:14 – 16 We have passed from death to life…
- Revelation 2:7, 22:2, 22:14 The Tree of Life
- Revelation 2:10 The crown of life
- Revelation 3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12, 20:15, 21:27, 22:19 The book of life
- Revelation 11:11 The spirit of life from God
- Revelation 21:6, 22:1, 22:17 Fountain of the water of life
- Eternal life: Matthew 19:16, 19:29, 25:46, Mark 10:17, 10:30, Luke 10:25, 18:18, 18:30, John 3:15, 3:16, 3:36, 4:14, 4:36, 5:24, 5:26, 5:29, 5:39 – 40, 6:27 – 68, 10:28, 12:25, 12:50, 17:2, 17:3, Acts 13:46 – 48, Romans 2:7, 5:21, 6:22 – 23, Galatians 6:8, 1 Timothy 1:16, 6:12, 6:19, Titus 1:2, 3:7, Hebrews 7:16, 1 John 1:2, 2:25, 3:15, 5:11 – 20, Jude 21
