For the one who finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord.
But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.
A good person obtains favor from the Lord, but the Lord condemns a person with wicked schemes.
The one who finds a wife finds what is enjoyable, and receives a pleasurable gift from the Lord.
So they will give life to you, and grace to adorn your neck.
Then you will find favor and good understanding, in the sight of God and people.
Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.
for they are life to those who find them and healing to one’s entire body.
Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”
For wisdom provides protection, just as money provides protection. But the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.
More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – indeed, I regard them as dung! – that I may gain Christ,
for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.