Quotes About Life

And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”

Elisha answered, “Go and tell him, ëYou will surely recover.í But the LORD has shown me that in fact he will die.”

Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the manís body into Elishaís tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.

until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ëThe LORD will deliver us.í

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ëPut your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.í”

I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.í”

“It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps,” answered Hezekiah, “but not for it to go back ten steps.”

But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”

So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the kingís table for the rest of his life.

And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.

Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech.

Let the sea resound, and all that fills it; let the fields exult, and all that is in them.

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

And whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, would be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

Then they will be able to offer sacrifices of a sweet aroma to the God of heaven and to pray for the lives of the king and his sons.

But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.

You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.

In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.

He had seven sons and three daughters,

One day, while Jobís sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brotherís house,

saying: “Naked I came from my motherís womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”