Matthew 19:16

New Century Version

A man came to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to have life forever?”

Cross References

Jude 1:21

Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the Lord Jesus Christ with his mercy to give you life forever.

John 3:15

So that everyone who believes can have eternal life in him.

1 John 5:20

We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we can know the True One. And our lives are in the True One and in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and the eternal life.

1 John 1:2

He who gives life was shown to us. We saw him and can give proof about it. And now we announce to you that he has life that continues forever. He was with God the Father and was shown to us.

Matthew 25:46

“These people will go off to be punished forever, but the good people will go to live forever.”

Titus 3:7

Being made right with God by his grace, we could have the hope of receiving the life that never ends.

1 John 2:25

And this is what the Son promised to us—life forever.

Titus 1:2

That faith and that knowledge come from the hope for life forever, which God promised to us before time began. And God cannot lie.

1 Timothy 6:19

By doing that, they will be saving a treasure for themselves as a strong foundation for the future. Then they will be able to have the life that is true life.

1 Timothy 6:12

Fight the good fight of faith, grabbing hold of the life that continues forever. You were called to have that life when you confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

Acts 16:30

He brought them outside and said, “Men, what must I do to be saved?”

Romans 5:21

Sin once used death to rule us, but God gave people more of his grace so that grace could rule by making people right with him. And this brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 2:7

Some people, by always continuing to do good, live for God’s glory, for honor, and for life that has no end. God will give them life forever.

John 12:25

Those who love their lives will lose them, but those who hate their lives in this world will keep true life forever.

John 10:28

I give them eternal life, and they will never die, and no one can steal them out of my hand.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, who would we go to? You have the words that give eternal life.

John 6:47

I tell you the truth, whoever believes has eternal life.

John 5:39

You carefully study the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. They do in fact tell about me,

John 4:14

but whoever drinks the water I give will never be thirsty. The water I give will become a spring of water gushing up inside that person, giving eternal life.”

Matthew 19:29

And all those who have left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or farms to follow me will get much more than they left, and they will have life forever.

Daniel 12:2

Many people who have already died will live again. Some of them will wake up to have life forever, but some will wake up to find shame and disgrace forever.

1 Timothy 1:16

But I was given mercy so that in me, the worst of all sinners, Christ Jesus could show that he has patience without limit. His patience with me made me an example for those who would believe in him and have life forever.

Matthew 19:26

Jesus looked at them and said, “For people this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.”

Matthew 19:15

After Jesus put his hands on the children, he left there.