Bible Verses About Desire for Life

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

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.

As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for ever.

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 commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:

For by means of a lewd woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead who sought the young child's life.

Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

For whoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whoever will lose his life for my sake, shall find it.

Wherefore, if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to sin, cut them off, and cast [them] from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire.

And if thy eye causeth thee to sin, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell-fire.

And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred-fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

For whoever will save his life, shall lose it: but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Labor not for the food which perisheth, but for that food which endureth to everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man shall eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say to thee, The cock will not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.

To them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immortality; eternal life:

For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they who receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

For the wages of sin [is] death: but the gift of God [is] eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

For if the rejection of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?

Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.

He asked life of thee, [and] thou gavest [it] to him, [even] length of days for ever and ever.

For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he [is] thy lord; and worship thou him.

For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath seen [its desire] upon my enemies.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire.

So they ate, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.