Life (Existence)

But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.

And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”

“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Child’s life are now dead.”

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”

“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?

Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

And when they heard that Jesus was alive and she had seen Him, they did not believe it.

including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.

One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Then a certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

There was also a prophetess named Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was well along in years. She had been married for seven years,

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”

“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”

After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.

But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”

As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.

In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.

that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”

For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.

“Lord,” said Peter, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.”

“Will you lay down your life for Me?” Jesus replied. “Truly, truly, I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

“Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?

“Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.

And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.

Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.

Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.

You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.

“Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”

In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”

When they heard this, they had no further objections, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But Paul went down, threw himself on the young man, and embraced him. “Do not be alarmed!” he said. “He is still alive!”

But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

“Men, I can see that our voyage will be filled with disaster and great loss, not only to ship and cargo, but to our own lives as well.”

But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because you will not experience any loss of life, but only of the ship.

After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

Peter took her by the hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her to them alive.

And He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that He is the One appointed by God to judge the living and the dead.

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

And the people were greatly relieved to take the boy home alive.

The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”

They only had some contentions with him regarding their own religion and a certain Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Then Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man. The whole Jewish community has petitioned me about him, both here and in Jerusalem, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.

They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.

When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.

For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

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

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”?

who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.

Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.

If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”

whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.

In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

To the one we are an odor that brings death, to the other a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?

We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.

So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.

unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. For we are also weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him concerning you.

The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”

The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”

Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.

They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have contended at my side for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

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

But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.

For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

For now we can go on living, as long as you are standing firm in the Lord.

By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.

After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

for kings and all those in authority—so that we may lead tranquil and quiet lives in all godliness and dignity.

But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.

treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,

Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.

one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life.

and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

In the case of the Levites, mortal men collect the tenth; but in the case of Melchizedek, it is affirmed that he lives on.

Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!

because a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.

by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”

Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”

Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.

And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.

For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them.

And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.

And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.

The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.

And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.

And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book.

They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.

the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life.

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.

And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:

And I saw another angel ascending from the east, with the seal of the living God. And he called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:

And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay!

Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived.

Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.

But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.