40 passages · Salvation
Moses sets before Israel life and prosperity or death and disaster, calling heaven and earth as witnesses. He urges them to choose life by loving the LORD, obeying him, and holding fast to him.
After reciting the song with Joshua, Moses tells the people to take all his words to heart and teach them to their children. These words are their life and will keep them long in the land.
The psalmist is glad and confident that God will not leave him in Sheol or let His faithful one see decay. God shows him the path of life and joy in His presence.
The image changes to a host who prepares a meal in front of enemies and anoints him. He ends confident that goodness and mercy will follow him and he will live in the LORD's house forever.
The psalmist says God holds his hand, guides him and will receive him, so he wants nothing in heaven or earth but God. Those far from God will perish, but it is good for him to draw near.
Wisdom concludes by urging her hearers to keep her ways: whoever finds her finds life and God's favor, and whoever misses her harms himself.
Wisdom is pictured as a hostess who builds her house, prepares a feast and sends servants to invite the simple to leave folly and live.
God describes a righteous man who worships no idols, treats others justly and mercifully, and lives by God's statutes. Such a person will surely live.
If the wicked turn from their sins and keep God's statutes, they will live and not die, and past sins will be forgotten. God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.
Michael will arise in a time of unparalleled distress, and those whose names are written in the book will be delivered. Many who sleep in the dust will awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame, and the wise will shine. Daniel is told to seal the book.
A young man asks what good he must do for eternal life. Jesus points him to the commandments, and when the man says he has kept them, Jesus tells him to sell his possessions and give to the poor, and the man goes away sad because he was very wealthy.
Peter says the disciples have left everything and asks what they will get. Jesus promises that they will sit on twelve thrones in the renewal of all things and that all who leave much for him will receive a hundredfold and eternal life, adding that many who are first will be last.
A man runs up and asks how to inherit eternal life. Jesus points to the commandments, then, looking at him with love, tells him to sell what he has, give to the poor and follow him, and the man leaves sad.
An expert in the law asks how to inherit eternal life, and they agree on loving God and neighbor. Asked who is his neighbor, Jesus tells of a Samaritan who cared for a wounded man ignored by a priest and a Levite, and says to go and do likewise.
A wealthy ruler asks how to inherit eternal life; Jesus tells him to sell everything and follow. The man leaves sad, and Jesus says entering the kingdom is hard for the rich, but possible with God.
Sadducees, who deny resurrection, pose a puzzle about a woman who married seven brothers. Jesus answers that those in the age to come do not marry, and that Moses calls God the God of the living.
Jesus (or John's reflection on His words) says God gave His Son so that believers would have eternal life, that He came to save rather than condemn, and that people avoid the Light because of their deeds.
Speaking of the One who comes from heaven, the speaker says He testifies to what He has seen, speaks God's words with the Spirit without limit, and those who believe in the Son have eternal life.
Jesus says the Son does what He sees the Father doing, gives life and has been given authority to judge. Those who hear and believe pass from death to life, and all will hear His voice at the resurrection.
The crowd asks for a sign like the manna. Jesus says the Father gives true bread from heaven and declares Himself the bread of life, promising that all who come and believe will have eternal life.
The Jews argue about how He can give His flesh to eat. Jesus says that eating His flesh and drinking His blood brings eternal life and abiding in Him, unlike the manna.
At the Feast of Dedication in winter, the Jews ask Him to say plainly whether He is the Christ. He points to His works, says His sheep hear His voice and are secure, and declares 'I and the Father are one.'
Lazarus has been in the tomb four days. Martha meets Jesus, who says He is the resurrection and the life and asks if she believes. She confesses He is the Christ, the Son of God.
Looking to heaven, Jesus tells the Father that the hour has come. He asks to be glorified, says he has finished the work he was given, and defines eternal life as knowing the Father and himself.
The writer explains that Jesus did many other signs not recorded here. These are written so readers may believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and have life in his name.
Paul says God will repay everyone according to their deeds, giving eternal life to those who persevere in doing good and wrath to those who reject truth. This applies to Jew and Greek alike, since God shows no favoritism.
Paul contrasts Adam's trespass, which led to condemnation, with Christ's act of obedience, which brings justification and life. Where sin increased, grace increased all the more.
Paul contrasts the outcome of the old life, shameful and ending in death, with the outcome of serving God, which leads to holiness and eternal life. He sums it up: sin pays wages of death, but God gives eternal life as a gift.
Paul contrasts a mind set on the flesh, which leads to death, with a mind set on the Spirit, which leads to life and peace. The Spirit of the one who raised Jesus lives in believers and will give life to their bodies.
Paul tells Timothy to flee these evils, pursue righteousness, and fight the good fight. He charges him to keep the commandment faithfully until Christ appears, closing with praise of God's majesty.