Thursday, January 14, 2010

29 Days to Live - Day 5 - What does the Bible say?

Today, I've really tried to focus on what the Bible says about life and living. So I went to Biblegateway.com, typed 'live' into the search bar, and scrounged through the results. Here are the ones that stuck out to me:

Psalm 118:17 (NLT)
I will not die; instead, I will live to tell what the Lord has done.


Proverbs 9:6 (NLT)
Leave your simple ways behind, and begin to live; learn to use good judgment.


Ecclesiastes 11:8 (NIV)
However many years a man may live, let him enjoy them all.


Isaiah 36:15 - 16 (NIV)
But what can I say? He has spoken to me, and he himself has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul. Lord, by such things men live; and my spirit finds life in them too. You restored me to health and let me live.


Ezekiel 16:6 (NLT)
But I came by and saw you there, helplessly kicking about in your own blood. As you lay there, I said, ‘Live!’


Ezekiel 18:32 (NLT)
I don’t want you to die, says the Sovereign Lord. Turn back and live!


Amos 5:4 (NLT)
Now this is what the Lord says to the family of Israel: "Come back to me and live!"


Amos 5:14 (NLT)
Do what is good and run from evil so that you may live! Then the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies will be your helper, just as you have claimed.


Matthew 4:3 - 4 (NIV)
The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread." Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."


John 14:19 (NLT)
Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live.


Romans 6:1 - 11 (NIV)
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.



2 Corinthians 5:7 (NIV)
We live by faith, not by sight.


Galations 2:19 - 20 (NIV)
For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 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 for me.


1 Thessalonians 3:8 (NIV)
For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord.


1 Peter 2:16
Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

1 comment:

  1. Love them all! What a great reminder from scripture how we are supposed to use this life God gave us; to LIVE for Him! I am so happy for you in doing this whole 29 days thing. Just from reading your blogs I have thought about many of these things myself and it has helped me realize some things in my own persuit of living!

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