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Bible Verses About Life

Life raises questions every generation asks. Why are we here? How should we spend the time we have? What happens when it ends? The Bible answers with remarkable honesty. Ecclesiastes admits that life can feel like chasing the wind, and Psalms asks God to teach us to number our days. James calls life a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Yet the same Scriptures insist that every life matters to God, that he knew us before we were born, and that Jesus came so we might have life more abundantly. These Bible verses about life cover its seasons, its purpose and its brevity, and the wisdom needed to live it well. They also look beyond this life to the promise of eternal life. Read them when you face a big decision, start a new chapter, or simply want to remember what matters most.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

John 10:10 WEB

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

John 14:6 WEB

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

John 11:25 WEB

Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

John 11:26 WEB

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

Deuteronomy 30:19 WEB

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Psalm 16:11 WEB

“LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Psalm 39:4 WEB

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:12 WEB

This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Psalm 118:24 WEB

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Psalm 139:16 WEB

My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Proverbs 3:1 WEB

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

Proverbs 3:2 WEB

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Proverbs 4:23 WEB

A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps.

Proverbs 16:9 WEB

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but the LORD’s counsel will prevail.

Proverbs 19:21 WEB

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Ecclesiastes 3:1 WEB

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.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 WEB

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 WEB

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Jeremiah 29:11 WEB

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8 WEB

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?

Matthew 6:25 WEB

But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 6:33 WEB

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Matthew 7:24 WEB

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 16:25 WEB

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?

Matthew 16:26 WEB

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Luke 12:15 WEB

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

John 6:35 WEB

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

John 17:3 WEB

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:4 WEB

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23 WEB

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Romans 12:1 WEB

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Romans 12:2 WEB

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Galatians 2:20 WEB

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

2 Corinthians 5:17 WEB

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Philippians 1:21 WEB

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Colossians 3:2 WEB

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Colossians 3:17 WEB

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

1 Timothy 6:6 WEB

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

1 Timothy 6:12 WEB

Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

James 4:14 WEB

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

1 Peter 3:10 WEB

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

2 Peter 1:3 WEB

He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.

1 John 5:12 WEB

Frequently asked questions

What does the Bible say about the meaning of life?

Ecclesiastes 12:13 concludes, “Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” Micah 6:8 sums it up as doing justly, loving mercy and walking humbly with God.

What is a good Bible verse about living life to the fullest?

In John 10:10 Jesus says, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” Psalm 16:11 speaks of fulness of joy in God’s presence.

What does the Bible say about the seasons of life?

Ecclesiastes 3:1 says “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” The verses that follow name times to plant, weep, laugh, mourn and dance.

What does the Bible say about eternal life?

John 3:16 and Romans 6:23 describe eternal life as God’s gift through Jesus Christ. In John 17:3 Jesus defines it as knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom he has sent.

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