So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
[Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of life.
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.
From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.
He asked life of thee, [and] thou gavest [it] him, [even] length of days for ever and ever.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
[A Psalm] of David. The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
For his anger [endureth but] a moment; in his favour [is] life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the morning.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may see good?
For with thee [is] the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
[Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.
Thou wilt prolong the king's life: [and] his years as many generations.
Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
She [is] a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy [is every one] that retaineth her.
So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.
For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
The mouth of a righteous [man is] a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
He [is in] the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death.
The fruit of the righteous [is] a tree of life; and he that winneth souls [is] wise.
A righteous [man] regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.
In the way of righteousness [is] life; and [in] the pathway [thereof there is] no death.
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
The ransom of a man's life [are] his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life.
The law of the wise [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
The fear of the LORD [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.
The way of life [is] above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
In the light of the king's countenance [is] life; and his favour [is] as a cloud of the latter rain.
Understanding [is] a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly.
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
The fear of the LORD [tendeth] to life: and [he that hath it] shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
By humility [and] the fear of the LORD [are] riches, and honour, and life.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion.
For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.
For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
For wisdom [is] a defence, [and] money [is] a defence: but the excellency of knowledge [is, that] wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that [is] thy portion in [this] life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard [even] unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
O Lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; [yet] saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
And [when] thou [art] spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; [thy] lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand [of them] whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.
Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.
So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, [As] the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, [even] my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
And [for] his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision [is] touching the whole multitude thereof, [which] shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at [every] moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
[If] the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.
Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.
My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him [for] the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast [them] from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
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In Mark 12:30 Jesus said;
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The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
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