Scripture Folios
The Spirit Gives Life
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. Chapter Related 2 Corinthians 4:7 Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us. Chapter Related 1 Corinthians 15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit. Chapter Related John 20:22 When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” Chapter Related John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. Chapter Related Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh? Chapter Related
In Him Was Life
John 1:4 In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. Chapter Related John 5:26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself. Chapter Related 1 John 1:1–2 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. Chapter Related Acts 3:15 You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact. Chapter Related 1 John 5:11–12 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. Chapter Related
The Way and the Truth and the Life
John 6:35 Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.” Chapter Related John 10:10 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. Chapter Related John 11:25–26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?” Chapter Related John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Chapter Related Hebrews 7:16 one who has become a priest not by a law of succession, but by the power of an indestructible life. Chapter Related Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them. Chapter Related Revelation 1:17–18 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, 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.” Chapter Related
Because I Live
John 14:19 In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live. Chapter Related John 6:57 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. Chapter Related John 15:4–5 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing. Chapter Related Romans 5:10 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! Chapter Related Romans 8:10–11 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you. Chapter Related 2 Corinthians 4:10–11 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. Chapter Related Ephesians 2:4–5 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! Chapter Related
Christ, Who Is Your Life
John 17:3 Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent. Chapter Related 1 John 5:20 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. Chapter Related Galatians 2:20 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. Chapter Related Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Chapter Related Colossians 3:3–4 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. Chapter Related Revelation 22:1–2 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. Chapter Related
Life is given, not made. God forms the man from the dust and breathes the breath of life into his nostrils. The treasure is in jars of clay, but it is not clay. The first Adam became a living being, the last Adam a life-giving spirit, and the risen Jesus breathes on his disciples: “Receive the Holy Spirit.” The Spirit gives life, and what starts in the Spirit goes on in the Spirit. John says more than that God gives life. In him was life; the Father has life in himself and has granted the Son to have life in himself, and the apostles saw and touched “the life that was revealed.” Then the claim keeps rising. He is the bread of life, he came that they may have life in all its fullness, he is the resurrection and the life, the way and the truth and the life, a priest by the power of an indestructible life, the Living One who was dead and is alive forever. The turn comes at the bread: as he lives because of the Father, the one who feeds on him will live because of him. Life has a source and stays joined to it: remain in me, for apart from me you can do nothing. So we are saved through his life, the Spirit gives life to our mortal bodies, and the life of Jesus is revealed in our mortal body. Paul finally says it flat out: Christ lives in me; to live is Christ; your life is hidden with Christ in God, and Christ is your life. The Bible ends where it began, with a tree of life beside the river of the water of life.