Quotes About Life

the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Pursue justice, and justice alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.

Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.

Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.

Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.

Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”

However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.

For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,