Eternal life

Life with God does not stop at death. Here are the verses about eternal life and what awaits.

Many read these verses when they need hope, and that is no coincidence.

What the Bible says

  • 1 John 5:11–13

    11 And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

    12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

    13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

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  • John 5:24–26

    24 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.

    25 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.

    26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

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  • John 6:47–51

    47 Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

    48 I am the bread of life.

    49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

    50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

    51 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 10:28

    I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

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  • John 3:36

    Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

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  • Romans 6:22–23

    22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

    23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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  • 1 John 2:25

    And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

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  • John 3:14–16

    14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

    15 that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

    16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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  • John 4:13–14

    13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

    14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

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  • John 6:53–54

    53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.

    54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

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  • John 17:2–3

    2 For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

    3 Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

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  • Daniel 12:2–3

    2 And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

    3 Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.

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  • Ecclesiastes 3:11

    He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

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  • John 6:40

    For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

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  • John 6:57–58

    57 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.

    58 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 6:68

    Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

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  • John 11:25–26

    25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.

    26 And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”

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  • John 20:31

    But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

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  • Romans 5:20–21

    20 The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

    21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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  • 1 Corinthians 15:22

    For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

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  • Matthew 19:16

    Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”

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  • Revelation 22:1–2

    1 Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

    2 down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

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  • Luke 18:18

    Then a certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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  • Mark 10:17

    As Jesus started on His way, a man ran up and knelt before Him. “Good Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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  • Acts 11:18

    When they heard this, their objections were put to rest, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

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  • Acts 13:46–48

    46 Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

    47 For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

    48 When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

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  • 2 Timothy 1:1–2

    1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

    2 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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  • Acts 5:20

    “Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”

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  • Acts 20:32

    And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

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  • Daniel 4:3

    How great are His signs, how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; His dominion endures from generation to generation.

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  • John 4:15

    The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

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  • Revelation 20:15

    And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

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  • Revelation 21:27

    But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

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  • Job 42:16

    After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

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  • Revelation 13:8

    And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.

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