721 verses contain “Life” (in the KJV: 552, in the BSB: 517) — showing 201–300
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What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.
Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
The labor of the righteous leads to life, but the gain of the wicked brings punishment.
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
He who pursues righteousness and loving devotion finds life, righteousness, and honor.
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
If you say, “Behold, we did not know about this,” does not He who weighs hearts consider it? Does not the One who guards your life know? Will He not repay a man according to his deeds?
The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.