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Bible Verses About Life
Bible verses on the meaning of life — purpose, eternity, daily living.
13 verses · curated by hand
Ecclesiastes 3:1
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:"
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In chapter2 Corinthians 5:17
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new."
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In chapterGenesis 1:27
"God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them."
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In chapterPsalms 118:24
"This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!"
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In chapterPsalms 16:11
"You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more."
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In chapterEcclesiastes 3:11
"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end."
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In chapterJohn 10:10
"The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly."
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In chapterEsther 4:14
"For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”"
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In chapter1 Corinthians 6:19
"Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,"
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In chapterEphesians 2:10
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them."
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In chapterFrom the wider Bible
More verses about life in Scripture
492 passages mentioning “life” across WEB & KJV — beyond the curated set above.
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Matthew 2:20
““Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.””
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Matthew 3:8
“Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!”
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Matthew 6:25
“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?”
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Matthew 6:27
““Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?”
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Matthew 7:14
“How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.”
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Matthew 10:39
“He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.”
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Matthew 16:25
“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.”
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Matthew 16:26
“For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?”
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Matthew 18:8
“If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.”
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Matthew 18:9
“If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.”
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Matthew 19:16
“Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?””
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Matthew 19:17
“He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.””
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Matthew 19:29
“Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.”
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Matthew 20:28
“even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.””
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Matthew 25:46
“These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.””
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Mark 3:4
“He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?” But they were silent.”
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Mark 8:35
“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.”
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Mark 8:36
“For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?”
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Mark 8:37
“For what will a man give in exchange for his life?”
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Mark 9:43
“If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,”
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