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What Does the Bible Say About Giving Life?

Here are 9 Bible verses about giving life, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1John 5:21

    For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

    BSBFor just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

  2. #2John 6:63

    It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

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

  3. #31 Peter 3:15

    But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

    BSBBut in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect,

  4. #4John 1:4

    In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

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

  5. #5Acts 20:24

    But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

    BSBBut 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.

  6. #6Romans 4:17

    (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

    BSBAs it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

  7. #7Luke 20:38

    For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

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

  8. #8Psalms 139:13

    For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

    BSBFor You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

  9. #9Genesis 2:7

    And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

    BSBThen 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.

Verse rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY). Scripture: KJV & BSB (public domain).

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