Concordance

“Life” in the Bible

932 verses contain “life” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 1:20 And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
Genesis 1:21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind.…
Genesis 1:24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it…
Genesis 1:30 …hat crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was…
Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:9 … for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and…
Genesis 2:19 …at he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its…
Genesis 3:14 …ly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your…
Genesis 3:17 …f you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your…
Genesis 3:20 And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:22 …, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live…
Genesis 3:24 So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.
Genesis 6:12 And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
Genesis 6:13 Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and…
Genesis 6:17 And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Genesis 6:19 And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.
Genesis 6:20 Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
Genesis 7:4 For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens…
Genesis 7:15 They came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
Genesis 7:16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
Genesis 7:21 And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
Genesis 7:22 Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Genesis 7:23 And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only…
Genesis 8:17 Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be…
Genesis 8:19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
Genesis 8:21 … is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have…
Genesis 9:2 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea.…
Genesis 9:3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
Genesis 9:5 And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
Genesis 9:10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.
Genesis 9:11 And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Genesis 9:12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
Genesis 9:15 I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
Genesis 9:16 …and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the…
Genesis 12:13 Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”
Genesis 13:7 And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
Genesis 14:12 They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.
Genesis 14:13 …e came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to…
Genesis 19:17 …e men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept…
Genesis 19:19 …r sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will…
Genesis 19:20 Look, there is a town nearby where I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
Genesis 24:62 Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.
Genesis 25:6 But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Genesis 27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
Genesis 32:30 So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Genesis 35:22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Genesis 36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Genesis 37:21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.
Genesis 42:15 And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 42:16 …ay be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are…
Genesis 43:7 …etail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he…
Genesis 43:9 I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.
Genesis 43:27 He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?”
Genesis 43:28 “Your servant our father is well,” they answered. “He is still alive.” And they bowed down to honor him.
Genesis 44:30 So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,
Genesis 44:32 Indeed, your servant guaranteed the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
Genesis 45:3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer him, because they were terrified in his presence.
Genesis 45:5 And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
Genesis 45:7 God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:26 “Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.
Genesis 45:28 “Enough!” declared Israel. “My son Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”
Genesis 46:30 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that you are still alive!”
Genesis 47:25 “You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
Genesis 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
Genesis 48:15 Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
Genesis 50:20 As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
Exodus 1:14 and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
Exodus 4:18 … me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro…
Exodus 21:6 then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.
Exodus 21:23 But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
Exodus 21:30 If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
Exodus 22:4 If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double.
Exodus 30:12 …to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are…
Exodus 30:15 In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.
Exodus 30:16 …r the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your…
Leviticus 11:10 But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.
Leviticus 11:46 This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.
Leviticus 16:10 But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement by sending it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.
Leviticus 17:8 Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice
Leviticus 17:10 If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the…
Leviticus 17:12 Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.’
Leviticus 17:13 And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.
Leviticus 17:14 For the life of all flesh is its blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its…
Leviticus 18:18 You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
Leviticus 18:26 But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.
Leviticus 19:16 You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:34 You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:2 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
Leviticus 24:17 And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
Leviticus 24:18 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
Leviticus 25:45 You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
Leviticus 25:46 …er you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his…
Leviticus 26:16 …ease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat…
Numbers 13:28 Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
Numbers 14:25 Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
Numbers 14:38 Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
Numbers 16:30 …lows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with…
Numbers 16:33 They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
Numbers 16:38 …or the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have…
Numbers 16:48 He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.
Numbers 22:30 But the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not the donkey you have ridden all your life until today? Have I ever treated you this way before?” “No,” he replied.
Numbers 35:31 You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 4:4 But you who held fast to the LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.
Deuteronomy 4:42 to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
Deuteronomy 5:3 He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
Deuteronomy 5:26 For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
Deuteronomy 6:2 …andchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be…
Deuteronomy 11:6 …nd swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that belonged to…
Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
Deuteronomy 15:17 then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
Deuteronomy 16:3 …gypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of…
Deuteronomy 17:19 …ain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction…
Deuteronomy 19:4 … the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm…
Deuteronomy 19:5 …is neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his…
Deuteronomy 19:21 You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
Deuteronomy 20:16 However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
Deuteronomy 22:19 …hall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he…
Deuteronomy 22:29 … he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he…
Deuteronomy 28:43 The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 28:66 So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.
Deuteronomy 30:19 …h as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may…
Deuteronomy 30:20 …RD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham,…
Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Deuteronomy 32:47 For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
Deuteronomy 33:28 So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
Joshua 1:5 No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Joshua 2:13 that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”
Joshua 2:14 “Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the LORD gives us the land.”
Joshua 3:10 He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites,…
Joshua 4:14 On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him all the days of his life, just as they had revered Moses.
Joshua 8:23 But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
Joshua 9:16 Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.
Joshua 9:24 …ll its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done…
Joshua 10:1 …at the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near…
Joshua 11:19 No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.
Joshua 14:10 Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am…
Joshua 15:63 But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah.
Joshua 24:15 …uphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the…
Judges 1:9 Afterward, the men of Judah marched down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, in the Negev, and in the foothills.
Judges 1:10 Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.
Judges 1:17 Then the men of Judah went with their brothers the Simeonites, attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and devoted the city to destruction. So it was called Hormah.
Judges 1:21 The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the Benjamites.
Judges 1:29 Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.
Judges 2:18 …m from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted…
Judges 5:7 Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.
Judges 5:18 Zebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.

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