God offers us eternal life out of His tremendous love for humanity. These Bible verses for everlasting life remind us of what awaits us in heaven by his side.
Contrary to popular belief, eternal life does not entail an endless existence. Everlasting life is what we have now. It is not a process that starts once we reach heaven. Salvation entails much more than simply having our sins absolved so that we might enter heaven instead of hell.
If you are worried about your own everlasting life (or that of someone else in your life), you could offer a prayer for being saved.
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What Does the Bible Say About Everlasting Life?
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the one who is wise saves lives. 31 If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
Sin stands in the way of our relationship with the Holy God and Jesus took away this obstacle.
Knowing God is eternal life.
When Jesus said that knowing God was eternal life, He meant having a tight, close-knit connection with our Lord.
Despite the fact that many individuals have the belief that Jesus died to pay for their sins, they still do not have a deep, intimate relationship with the Lord.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This strong bond is not just for the afterlife. You should already be experiencing eternal life with God on this very earth.
The true objective of salvation is overlooked when one waits for heaven to begin.
God freely gives eternal life to all who put their faith in Jesus Christ. There is no way to earn eternal life.
It is by God’s grace through faith in Jesus and by our own acts of obedience that we are given eternal life.
John 5:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Nobody will ever be in a position to proudly claim that he has merited or deserved the gift of everlasting life.
God must grant salvation; no one can demand it.
Jesus Christ is the ultimate authority for gaining eternal life. He is the one through whom we receive it.
Christ is the creator of our salvation. He became the source of everyone’s eternal salvation.
John 2:25
This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.
Christ tells us that obedience is crucial so that we might develop the godly virtues of good judgment, merciful love, and unwavering faith.
It is made abundantly clear that it is not sufficient to just claim Jesus Christ as Lord and Master.
We have to take action in order to inherit the Kingdom of God. As the Father has revealed, we must carry out His will.
Titus 1:2
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago
Jesus wants us to realize that gaining eternal life is more than simple mental acceptance.
Our faith in Him as our Savior must go beyond a sentimental or abstract concept. Merely praising Him or referring to Him as our Lord is insufficient.
In order for God to accept our faith, we must obey the Father’s commands.
Salvation is only the start.
Those who would be Jesus’ disciples must put in a significant amount of effort and sacrifice. Accepting Jesus as Savior comes with difficulties, choices, and problems.
John 5:12
He who has the Son has the life he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
Our lives are now committed to following Christ rather than being purely our own.
Our loyalty is demonstrated by our obedience, deeds, and spiritual development. It generates the outcomes and successes God desires for us.
The decision to choose everlasting life is not the end; it is the beginning.
The opportunity for eternal life is conditional. We must continue in the faith. We must make an effort to be pure and holy before God. We have to work.
We are given everlasting life so that we might start living a life of service.
John 5:11
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Even if obtaining eternal life without God’s favor is impossible, this truth does not free us from the obligation to obey.
While salvation is free, it is not cheap.
Christ gave His life as a sacrifice for ours.
The very Son of God, Jesus Christ, freely gave up His life so that we could receive the gift of eternal life. He then demands that we give up our life in exchange for salvation.
John 6:40
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Each of us must be prepared to carry our crosses, to obediently follow Jesus even through the toughest trials in life.
Jesus Christ will reward everyone when He comes again. Those who have followed His instructions are blessed with the gift of eternal life.
Faith is proven through obedience. The act of obeying does not include trying to earn our righteousness. It is a demonstration of our strong, unwavering confidence in His promises.
Hebrews 9:27
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment
Obedience is not something we do unwillingly or reluctantly.
Obedience is a willing demonstration of our love and thankfulness for what He is willing to provide. It is a joyful and certain declaration of our belief in God’s promise.
We show our trust in Jesus, triumph over the world, and fulfill God’s plan through being obedient.
The evidence and proof of our faith, by which we are saved, are found in our actions of obedience.
John 5:39
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
Faith is neither contradicted nor denied by obedience. It establishes it. The basis for obedience is faith.
Eternal life is a way of life, not merely the duration of it.
When we place our faith in Jesus, eternal life begins. After our bodily death, as followers of Christ, we continue to have an everlasting existence with God. There are Bible verses for witnessing God that remind us of his constant presence in our lives.
John 3:36
He who believes in the Son has eternal life but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.
Acts 4:12
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
John 1:4
In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
John 3:15
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Matthew 7:14
For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Mark 10:30
but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions and in the age to come, eternal life.
Revelation 21:8
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
John 2:17
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
John 4:14
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Timothy 1:16
But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
Scripture often talks about the perfect patience of Jesus and God. A Christian may choose to offer a prayer for patience in their own life (or for those around them), but we also need to remember that God has endless patience for His children.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 5:13
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
Matthew 25:46
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
John 20:31
but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that believing you may have life in His name.
Acts 24:15
Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.
John 6:27
Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.
John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
John 6:54
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 17:3
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Romans 5:21
So that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 10:28
and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
John 6:47
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
Galatians 6:8
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Prayer Submission
Have your prayer for everlasting life submitted all over the world:
