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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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1 Kings 11:34
““‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;”
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1 Kings 15:5
“because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.”
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1 Kings 15:6
“Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.”
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1 Kings 19:2
“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 them by tomorrow about this time!””
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1 Kings 19:3
“When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.”
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1 Kings 19:4
“But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.””
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1 Kings 19:10
“He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.””
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1 Kings 19:14
“He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.””
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1 Kings 20:31
“His servants said to him, “See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.””
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1 Kings 20:39
“As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man! If by any means he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’”
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1 Kings 20:42
“He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life will take the place of his life, and your people take the place of his people.’””
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2 Kings 1:13
“Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.”
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2 Kings 1:14
“Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.””
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2 Kings 4:16
“He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.””
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2 Kings 4:17
“The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.”
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2 Kings 7:7
“Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.”
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2 Kings 8:1
“Now Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It will also come on the land for seven years.””
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2 Kings 8:5
“As he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, begged the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.””
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2 Kings 10:24
“So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men outside, and said, “If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.””
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2 Kings 25:29
“and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;”
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