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49 Bible Verses About Life


Obviously, life is important to each one of us. The Bible speaks about life and gives us many thoughts of where to find life.


This list is 49 Bible Verses About life from the Bible. It is here to encourage you and to strengthen you as you look to God for life.



49 Scriptures On Life


bible verses about life

Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.


Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life.


Psalm 16:11 You will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.


Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.


Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom will I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom will I be afraid?


Psalm 34:22 The Lord redeems the life of His servants, and all who take refuge in Him will not be punished.


Psalm 36:9 For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.


Psalm 54:4 God is my helper; the Lord is with those who support my life.


Psalm 63:3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You.


Psalm 91:16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.


Psalm 103:1-5 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits, who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.


Psalm 146:2 While I live I will praise the Lord; I will sing praises unto my God while I have my life.


Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.


Proverbs 8:33-35 Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it. Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favor of the Lord;


Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.


Proverbs 12:28 In the way of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.


Proverbs 13:3 He who guards his mouth preserves his life, but he who opens wide his lips will have destruction.


Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.


Jeremiah 21:8 To this people you shall say: Thus says the Lord: See, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.


Matthew 10:39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.


John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.


John 3:36 He who believes in the Son has eternal life. He who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.


John 4:14 But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water that I shall give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life.


John 5:24 Truly, truly I say to you, whoever hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.


John 5:39 You search the Scriptures, because you think in them you have eternal life. These are they who bear witness of Me.


John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me shall never hunger, and whoever believes in Me shall never thirst.”


John 6:47 Truly, truly I say to you, whoever believes in Me has eternal life.


John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and are life.


John 8:12 Again, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.”


John 10:10 The thief does not come, except to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.


John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, yet shall he live.”


John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”


John 17:3 This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.


John 20:31 But these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.


Acts 2:28 You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy with Your presence.


Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.


Romans 6:10 For the death He died, He died to sin once for all, but the life He lives, He lives to God.


Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.


2 Corinthians 4:11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that also the life of Jesus might be manifested in our mortal flesh.


Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.


1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, to which you are called and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.


2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who has called us by His own glory and excellence,


1 John 2:25 And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.


1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.


1 John 5:12 Whoever has the Son has life, and whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.


Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God while you are waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, which leads to eternal life.


Revelation 21:6 He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the spring of the water of life to him who thirsts.”


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