– Jesus, the Christ of God, the Messiah, is Life, because God is Life:
Jn 3:35 : The Father loves the Son and has entrusted all things to him.
Jn 5:26 : For as the Father has life in himself, so he also gave the Son to have life in himself.
Jn 7 :30.44 : They tried to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
Jn 8:20 : But no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
Jo 10,10-11.39 : I came so that the sheep may have life and that they may have it in abundance.
Jn 11:25 : I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.
Jo 14,6 : I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.
1Jn 1,2 : For the life appeared, and we have seen it; we bear witness and proclaim to you eternal life.
Heb 7:25 : It is possible to complete the salvation of those who come to God through him.
Revelation 1 :8 : I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Lord.
– He gives it spontaneously to those who accept to receive it:
Jo 3,15-16.36 : So that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
Jn 5,21.24 : Indeed, as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he wants.
Jn 6,40,51,57,58 : This is the will of my Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life.
Jo 10,18.28 : Nobody takes it from me, but I give it from myself and I have the power to lay it down, as I have the power to take it up again.
Jn 14:30 : I will no longer speak much with you, because the prince of this world is coming; but he has nothing on me.
Jn 19:11 : Jesus replied: “You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above.
Jn 20:31 : 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.
Acts 13:48 : All those predisposed to eternal life made an act of faith.
1Jn 5,11-12 : And the testimony is this: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
– This doctrine was already cultivated in the AT, since Yahweh is Life and its origin:
Gen 1,20-27 : God said: “Let the waters swarm with a multitude of living beings”.
Gen 2:7 : So the Lord God formed man from the clay of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
Ex 3:14 : God replied to Moses: “I am who I am”.
Dt 32,39 : I alone, I alone am God, and there is no other besides me. I smite and call to life, I wound and heal.
Is 42,8 : I am the Lord, that is my name, I will give my glory to no one, nor my honor to idols.
Ps 35:10 : For in you is the fountain of life, and in your light we see light.
Ps 65 :9: It was he who preserved the life of our soul, and did not allow our feet to slide.
Ps 138,13-14 : It was you who fashioned the entrails of my body, you wove me in my mother’s womb.
Jr 2,13 : Because my people committed a double perversity: they abandoned me, the source of living water.
Jer 17:13 : Those who turn away from you will be covered with shame, because they have left the Lord, the source of living waters.
Dan 5:23 : You have given praise to the gods of silver and gold […] instead of giving glory to the God on whom your breath depends.
– Who bestows it as a gift to all Creation:
Gen 1–2 : In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Num 16:22 : O God, God of the spirits of all flesh, one man has sinned, and you are angry with the whole assembly?
Num 27:16 : The Lord God of spirits and of all flesh.
Deut 32:39 : Recognize now: I alone, I alone am God, and there is no other besides me. I smite and call to life, I wound and heal.
Is 57:16 : Really, I do not desire endless controversies […] otherwise the spirit will fail before me, as well as the souls I have created.
Acts 17:25 , 28 : Because he is the one who gives everyone life and breath and all things.
– Mankind will be blessed if he observes his law:
Exodus 20:12 : Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Dt 5,16.33 : You will follow exactly the path that the Lord your God has traced for you, so that you may live and be happy.
Deut 6 : 2 : You shall fear the Lord your God, observing all the days of your life, […] all the laws and commandments that I prescribe to you.
Pr 3,1-2 : Keep my precepts in your heart because, with long days and years of life, they will assure you of happiness.
Pr 9:11 : Because by me your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you.
Pr 10:27 : The fear of the Lord prolongs days, but the years of the wicked will be shortened.
Jo 3,15-16.36 : So that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
Jn 5:24 : Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and does not incur condemnation, but has passed from death to life.
Jo 6,40.51.58 : Everyone who sees the Son and believes in him has eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day.
Jo 10,28 : I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Jn 20:31 : 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.
Acts 13:48 : All those predisposed to eternal life made an act of faith.
Eph 6:3: So that you may be happy and live long on earth (Dt 5:16).
1Jn 5,11-12 : The testimony is this: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
