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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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Job 11:17
“Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.”
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Job 12:10
“in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?”
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Job 13:14
“Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?”
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Job 24:22
“Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.”
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Job 27:3
“(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);”
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Job 27:8
“For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?”
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Job 31:30
“(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);”
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Job 31:39
“if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,”
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Job 33:4
“The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”
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Job 33:18
“He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.”
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Job 33:20
“So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.”
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Job 33:22
“Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.”
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Job 33:28
“He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’”
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Job 36:6
“He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the afflicted their right.”
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Job 36:14
“They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.”
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Job 38:39
““Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,”
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Psalms 7:5
“let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.”
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Psalms 17:14
“from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.”
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Psalms 21:4
“He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.”
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Psalms 22:20
“Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.”
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