in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.
So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.
And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
known from of old.’
since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
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