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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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Deuteronomy 32:47
“For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.””
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Joshua 1:5
“No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.”
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Joshua 2:14
“The men said to her, “Our life for yours, if you don’t talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.””
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Joshua 4:14
“On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.”
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Judges 9:17
“(for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;”
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Judges 12:3
“When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?””
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Judges 13:12
“Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?””
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Judges 16:30
“Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.”
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Judges 18:25
“The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.””
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Ruth 4:15
“He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.””
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1 Samuel 1:11
“She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.””
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1 Samuel 7:15
“Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.”
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1 Samuel 18:18
“David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?””
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1 Samuel 19:5
“for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?””
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1 Samuel 19:11
“Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.””
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1 Samuel 20:1
“David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?””
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1 Samuel 22:23
“Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.””
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1 Samuel 23:15
“David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.”
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1 Samuel 24:11
“Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.”
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1 Samuel 25:6
“Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.”
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