Greek word · G2198
ζάω
zaō
to live
Appears 139 times in 123 verses of the Greek New Testament.
Where it appears
Matthew · 6
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Matthew 4:4 ζήσεται will live
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
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Matthew 9:18 ζήσεται. she will live.
While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”
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Matthew 16:16 ζῶντος.¶ living.
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
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Matthew 22:32 ζώντων.¶ of [the] living.
‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
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Matthew 26:63 ζῶντος living
But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, “I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God.”
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Matthew 27:63 ζῶν· living;
“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
Mark · 2
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Mark 5:23 ζήσῃ.¶ she may live.
and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”
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Mark 12:27 ζώντων· of [the] living;
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”
Luke · 9
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Luke 2:36 ζήσασα having lived
There was also a prophetess named Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was well along in years. She had been married for seven years,
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Luke 4:4 ζήσεται will live
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”
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Luke 10:28 ζήσῃ.¶ you will live.
“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
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Luke 15:13 ζῶν living
After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.
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Luke 15:32 ἔζησεν, is alive ,
But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
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Luke 20:38 ζώντων· ζῶσιν.¶ of [the] living;, live.
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”
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Luke 24:5 ζῶντα living
As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?
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Luke 24:23 ζῆν. [is] living.
but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
John · 17
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John 4:10 ζῶν. living.
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
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John 4:11 ζῶν; is living?
“Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?
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John 4:50 ζῇ. lives.
“Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.
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John 4:51 ζῇ. lives.
And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.
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John 4:53 ζῇ. lives.
Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.
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John 5:25 ζήσουσιν.¶ will live.
Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
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John 6:51 ζῶν ζήσει is living, he will live
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”
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John 6:57 ζῶν ζῶ ζήσει living, live, will live
Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
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John 6:58 ζήσει will live
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
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John 7:38 ζῶντος. living.
Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
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John 11:25 ζήσεται, he will live,
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
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John 11:26 ζῶν is living
And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
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John 14:19 ζῶ, ζήσετε. live,, will live.
In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.
Acts · 12
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Acts 1:3 ζῶντα alive
After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
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Acts 7:38 ζῶντα living
He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
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Acts 9:41 ζῶσαν. living.
Peter took her by the hand and helped her up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her to them alive.
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Acts 10:42 ζώντων of living
And He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that He is the One appointed by God to judge the living and the dead.
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Acts 14:15 ζῶντα, is living,
“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.
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Acts 17:28 ζῶμεν we live
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
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Acts 20:12 ζῶντα alive
And the people were greatly relieved to take the boy home alive.
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Acts 22:22 ζῆν. to live!
The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
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Acts 25:19 ζῆν. to be alive.
They only had some contentions with him regarding their own religion and a certain Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
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Acts 25:24 ζῆν to live
Then Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man. The whole Jewish community has petitioned me about him, both here and in Jerusalem, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.
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Acts 26:5 ἔζησα I lived [as]
They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.
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Acts 28:4 ζῆν to live
When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
Romans · 23
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Romans 1:17 ζήσεται.¶ will live.
For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
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Romans 6:2 ζήσομεν will we live
Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
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Romans 6:10 ζῇ, ζῇ He lives,, He lives
The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.
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Romans 6:11 ζῶντας living
So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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Romans 6:13 ζῶντας living
Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
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Romans 7:1 ζῇ; he is alive?
Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
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Romans 7:2 ζῶντι living
For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
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Romans 7:3 ζῶντος while is living
So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.
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Romans 7:9 ἔζων was alive
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
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Romans 8:12 ζῆν· to live;
Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.
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Romans 8:13 ζῆτε, ζήσεσθε. you live,, you will live.
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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Romans 9:26 ζῶντος. [the] living.
and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
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Romans 10:5 ζήσεται will live
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
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Romans 12:1 ζῶσαν living
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
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Romans 14:7 ζῇ lives
For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
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Romans 14:8 ζῶμεν, ζῶμεν, ζῶμεν, we shall live,, we live,
If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
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Romans 14:9 ἔζησεν, ζώντων lived again,, living
For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
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Romans 14:11 ζῶ Live
It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”
1 Corinthians · 3
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1 Corinthians 7:39 ζῇ may live
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.
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1 Corinthians 9:14 ζῆν. to live.
In the same way, the Lord has prescribed that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
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1 Corinthians 15:45 ζῶσαν· living;
So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
2 Corinthians · 9
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2 Corinthians 1:8 ζῆν· to live;
We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
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2 Corinthians 3:3 ζῶντος, [the] living,
It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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2 Corinthians 4:11 ζῶντες living
For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.
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2 Corinthians 5:15 ζῶντες ζῶσιν living, may live
And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
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2 Corinthians 6:9 ζῶμεν, we live,
unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;
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2 Corinthians 6:16 ζῶντος, [the] living,
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
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2 Corinthians 13:4 ζῇ ζήσομεν He lives, we will live
For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. For we are also weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him concerning you.
Galatians · 9
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Galatians 2:14 ζῇς, live,
When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
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Galatians 2:19 ζήσω. I may live.
For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
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Galatians 2:20 ζῶ ζῇ ζῶ ζῶ I live, lives
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 up for me.
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Galatians 3:11 ζήσεται· will live;
Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
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Galatians 3:12 ζήσεται will live
The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
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Galatians 5:25 ζῶμεν we live
Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.
Philippians · 2
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Philippians 1:21 ζῆν to live
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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Philippians 1:22 ζῆν to live
But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.
Colossians · 2
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Colossians 2:20 ζῶντες living
If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
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Colossians 3:7 ἐζῆτε you were living
When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.
1 Thessalonians · 5
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1 Thessalonians 1:9 ζῶντι living
For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
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1 Thessalonians 3:8 ζῶμεν, we live,
For now we can go on living, as long as you are standing firm in the Lord.
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1 Thessalonians 4:15 ζῶντες living
By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.
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1 Thessalonians 4:17 ζῶντες living
After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
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1 Thessalonians 5:10 ζήσωμεν.¶ we may live.
He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
1 Timothy · 3
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1 Timothy 3:15 ζῶντος, [the] living,
in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
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1 Timothy 4:10 ζῶντι, [the] living,
To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of everyone, and especially of those who believe.
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1 Timothy 5:6 ζῶσα [while] living
But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
2 Timothy · 2
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2 Timothy 3:12 ζῆν to live
Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
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2 Timothy 4:1 ζῶντας [the] living
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:
Titus · 1
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Titus 2:12 ζήσωμεν we may live
It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
Hebrews · 12
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Hebrews 2:15 ζῆν to live
and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
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Hebrews 3:12 ζῶντος· [the] living;
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
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Hebrews 4:12 ζῶν Living [is]
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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Hebrews 7:8 ζῇ. he lives on.
In the case of the Levites, mortal men collect the tenth; but in the case of Melchizedek, it is affirmed that he lives on.
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Hebrews 7:25 ζῶν living
Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
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Hebrews 9:14 ζῶντι;¶ [the] living?
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
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Hebrews 9:17 ζῇ is living
because a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.
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Hebrews 10:20 ζῶσαν living
by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,
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Hebrews 10:31 ζῶντος.¶ [the] living.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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Hebrews 10:38 ζήσεται· will live;
But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
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Hebrews 12:9 ζήσομεν; will live?
Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
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Hebrews 12:22 ζῶντος, [the] living,
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
James · 1
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James 4:15 ζήσομεν we will live
Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
1 Peter · 7
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1 Peter 1:3 ζῶσαν living
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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1 Peter 1:23 ζῶντος living
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
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1 Peter 2:4 ζῶντα, living,
As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
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1 Peter 2:5 ζῶντες living
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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1 Peter 2:24 ζήσωμεν· we may live;
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
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1 Peter 4:5 ζῶντας [the] living
But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
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1 Peter 4:6 ζῶσιν they may live
That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
1 John · 1
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1 John 4:9 ζήσωμεν we may live
This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
Revelation · 13
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Revelation 1:18 ζῶν, ζῶν Living [One],, living
the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
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Revelation 2:8 ἔζησεν· came to life;
To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life.
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Revelation 3:1 ζῇς you are alive
“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.
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Revelation 4:9 ζῶντι is living
And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,
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Revelation 4:10 ζῶντι living
the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:
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Revelation 7:2 ζῶντος. [the] living.
And I saw another angel ascending from the east, with the seal of the living God. And he called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:
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Revelation 10:6 ζῶντι living
And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay!
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Revelation 13:14 ἔζησεν. has lived.
Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived.
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Revelation 15:7 ζῶντος is living
Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
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Revelation 19:20 ζῶντες living
But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
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Revelation 20:4 ἔζησαν they lived
Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
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Revelation 20:5 ἔζησαν lived
The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.
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