I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants, to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Read Deuteronomy 30 →Results
Read with care
Poetry about life’s brevity sits beside passages about abundant life. Seeing those perspectives together is more useful than treating any one line as a slogan.
John 10 uses the image of a shepherd and sheep; read the surrounding story before using “abundant life” as a promise of material prosperity.
How to use these passages
Move between poetry, wisdom, and Jesus’ teaching to see how each genre speaks about life differently. Ask whether the passage describes a gift, a responsibility, or a hope. Avoid building a universal rule from one verse.
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So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Read Psalm 90 →For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
Read Psalm 139 →I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
Read Ecclesiastes 3 →Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Read Proverbs 3 →Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Read Matthew 6 →The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Read John 10 →Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
Read John 11 →Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Read Romans 12 →Find a starting point
Choose a theme, then read the chapter around any verse that stands out.