Nave’s Topical Bible
Life
132 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- MISCELLANY OF MINOR SUB-TOPICS
- Breath of
- Called SPIRIT OF GOD
- Tree of
Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:22,24; Proverbs 3:18; Proverbs 13:12; Revelation 2:7
- (SACREDNESS OF, an inference from what is taught in the law Concerning murder)
See HOMICIDE
- Long life promised to obedient children
- To those who keep the commandments
- Vanity of
Ecclesiastes 1; Ecclesiastes 2; Ecclesiastes 3; Ecclesiastes 4; Ecclesiastes 5; Ecclesiastes 6; Ecclesiastes 7
- Hated
- To be hated for Christ's sake
- What can a man give in exchange for
- The one who loses it will save it
- Weary of
- Job
- Jeremiah
- Elijah
- Jonah
See SUICIDE
- Life of Christ, a ransom
See SPIRITUAL, blow
- BREVITY AND UNCERTAINTY OF
Genesis 18:27; Genesis 47:9; 1 Samuel 20:3; 2 Samuel 14:14; 1 Chronicles 29:15; Job 4:19-21; Job 7:6-10,17; Job 8:9; Job 9:25-26; Job 10:9,20-21; Job 13:12,25,28; Job 14:1-2; Job 17:1; Psalms 22:29; Psalms 39:4-6,11; Psalms 78:39; Psalms 89:47-48; Psalms 90:3,5-6,9-10; Psalms 102:11; Psalms 103:14-16; Psalms 144:3-4; Psalms 146:4; Proverbs 27:1; Ecclesiastes 1:4; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Isaiah 2:22; Isaiah 38:12; Isaiah 40:6-7,24; Isaiah 50:9; Isaiah 51:8,12; Isaiah 64:6; James 1:10-11; James 4:14; 1 Peter 1:24
See DEATH
- EVERLASTING
Psalms 21:4; Psalms 121:8; Psalms 133:3; Isaiah 25:8; Daniel 12:2; Matthew 19:16-21,29; Matthew 25:46; Mark 10:30; Luke 18:18,30; Luke 20:36; John 3:14-16; John 4:14; John 5:24-25,29,39; John 6:27,40,47,50-58,68; John 10:10,27-28; John 12:25,50; John 17:2-3; Acts 13:46,48; Romans 2:7; Romans 5:21; Romans 6:22-23; 1 Corinthians 15:53-54; 2 Corinthians 5:1; Galatians 6:8; 1 Timothy 1:16; 1 Timothy 4:8; 1 Timothy 6:12,19; 2 Timothy 1:10; Titus 1:2; Titus 3:7; 1 John 2:25; 1 John 3:15; 1 John 5:11-13,20; Jude 1:21; Revelation 1:18
See IMMORTALITY
- FROM GOD
Genesis 2:7; Deuteronomy 8:3; Deuteronomy 30:20; Deuteronomy 32:39-40; 1 Samuel 2:6; Job 27:3; Job 34:14-15; Psalms 22:29; Psalms 30:3; Psalms 68:20; Psalms 104:30; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 38:16-20; Acts 17:25-28; Romans 4:17; 1 Timothy 6:13; James 4:15
- LONG
See LONGEVITY
- SPIRITUAL
John 3:3-16; John 5:24-26,40; John 6:27,33,35,40,47; John 10:10; John 11:25-26; John 14:6; John 17:2-3; John 20:31; Romans 6:4-5,8,11,13,22-23; Romans 8:10; 1 John 1:1-2
Bible verses about “Life”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 2:7And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Job 27:3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
- Genesis 2:9And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 3:22And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
- Genesis 3:24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
- Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
- Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
- Revelation 2:7He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
- Exodus 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
- Deuteronomy 5:16Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
- Deuteronomy 4:40Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.
- Deuteronomy 22:7But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Luke 14:26If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
- Matthew 16:26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Mark 8:37Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Matthew 10:39He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
- Matthew 16:25For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
- Luke 9:24For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
- John 12:25He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
- Job 7:1Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
- Job 7:2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
- Job 7:3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- Job 10:18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
- Job 10:19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
- Jeremiah 20:15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
- Jeremiah 20:16And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
- Jeremiah 20:17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
- Jeremiah 20:18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- 1 Kings 19:1And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
- 1 Kings 19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
- 1 Kings 19:3And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer–sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.
- 1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
- 1 Kings 19:5And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
- 1 Kings 19:6And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
- 1 Kings 19:7And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
- 1 Kings 19:8And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
- Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.