LIBERALITY. abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; v. 13. Eph. 4:28. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 1 Tim. 5:16. If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed. 1 Tim. 6:17. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 18. That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 19. Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. Philem. 14. But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly. Heb. 6:10. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. Heb. 13:16. To do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 1 John 3:17. But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. See ALMS; BENEFICENCE; CHARITABLENESS; MINISTERS, EMOLUMENTS OF; POOR, DUTY TO; RICH; RICHES. INSTANCES OF: King of Sodom to Abraham, Gen. 14:21. Jacob, Gen. 28:22. Pharaoh to Joseph's people, Gen. 45:18-20. Israelites at the erection of the tabernacle, Ex. 35:21-29; 36.3-7; 38:8; Num. 7; 31:48–54; Josh. 18:1. Reubenites, Josh. 22:24-29. David, 2 Sam. 7:2; 1 Chr. 17:1; 2 Sam. 8:11; 1 Kin. 7:51; 8:17, 18; 1 Chr. 21:24: 22; 26:26; 28: Barzillai and 2; 29:2-5,17; Psa. 132:1-5. others to David, 2 Sam. 17:27-29; 19:32. Araunah for sacrifice, 2 Sam. 24:22,23. Joab to David, 2 Sam. 12:26-28. Israelites' offerings for the temple, 1 Chr. 29:6-9,16,17. Samuel, 1 Chr. 26:27,28. Solomon, 1 Kin. 4:29; 5:4,5; 2 Chr. 2:1-6; 1 Kin. 6: 7:51; 8:13. Queen of Sheba to Solomon, 1 Kin. 10:10. Asa and Abijam, 1 Kin. 15:15. Elisha toward Elijah, 1 Kin. 19:21. Jehoshaphat, 2 Kin. 12:18. Joash and his people, 2 Kin. 12:4-14; 2 Chr. 24:4-14. David, 1 Chr. 16:3. Hezekiah, 2 Chr. 29; 30:1-12; 31: 1-10,21. Manasseh, 2 Chr. 33:16. Josiah, 2 Kin. 22:3-6; 2 Chr. 34:8-13; 35:1-19. Jews after the captivity, Ezra 1:5,6; 2:68, 69; 3:2-9; 5:2-6; 6:14-22; 8:25-35; Neh. 3; 4:6; 6:3; 7:70–72; 10:32-39; 13:12,31; Hag. 1:12-14; 2:18,19. Cyrus, Ezra 1:2-4,7-11; 3:7; 5:13-15; 793 Darius, Ezra 6:7-12. Artaxerxes, Ezra LIBERTINES, freedmen, Acts 6:9. FIGURATIVE: Isa. 61:2; 63:4; Luke 4:19; in the desert, Num. 33:20. LIBNI. 1. Son of Gershon, Ex. 6:17; Descendants Num. 3:18; 1 Chr. 6:17,20. called LIBNITES, Num. 3:21; 26:58. 2. Grandson of Merari, 1 Chr. 6:29. LIBYA. Region N. of Egypt, Ezek. 30:5; 38:5; Acts 2:10. Called also LUBIM and PHUT, which see. LIBYANS, the inhabitants of Libya, LICE, plague of. Ex. 8:16-19; Psa. 105:31. LASCIVIOUSNESS. LIFE. INDEX OF SUB-TOPICS: Miscellany of Minor Sub-Topics, p.793; Brevity and Uncertainty of p. 793; Everlasting, p. 795; From God, p. 796; Long, p. 797; SpiritMISCELLANY OF MINOR SUB-TOPICS: ual, p. 797. Breath of, Gen: 2:7. Called SPIRIT OF GOD, Job 27:3. Tree of, Gen. 2:9; 3:22,24; Prov. 3:18; 13:12; Rev. 2:7. SACREDNESS OF, an inference from what is taught in the law concerning murder. See HOMICIDE. Long life promised to obedient children, Ex. 20:12; Deut. 5:16; to those who keep the commandments, Deut. 4:40; 22:7. Vanity of, Eccl. chapters 1-7. Hated, To be hated for Christ's sake, What shall a man give in exEccl. 2:17. Luke 14:26. change for, Matt. 16:26; Mark 8:37. He that loseth it shall save it, Matt. 10:39; 16:25,26; Luke 9:24; John 12:25. Weary of: Job, Job 3; 7:1-3; 10:18-20. Jeremiah, Jer. 20:14-18; Elijah, 1 Kin. 19:1-8; Jonah, Jonah 4:8,9. See SUICIDE. Life of Christ, a ransom, Matt. 20:28; Mark BREVITY AND UNCERTAINTY OF: Gen. 10:45; 1 Tim. 2:6. See SPIRITUAL, below. 47:9. The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, 1 Sam. 20:3. Truly as the LORD liveth, and 8 thy soul liveth, there is but a step be tween me and death. 2 Sam. 1414. We must needs die, and are beauty to consume EVER ik as water spot on the grou1 The ad De gattend Cuzzes We are strangers before thee, and spumere, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is tone wh Job Ale. Then that dwell in houses of day, whose foundation is in the dust which are cries before the moth! 21. They are destroyed fren moning to evening: they perist for ever without any regaring it, 21. Dah not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without Job 75. My days are swifter than a weavers shottie, and are spent without hope. 7. 0 remember that my life is wind: mine eve shall no more sse good. 8. The eye of him that hath wen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 10. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. c. 17. Job 89. (We are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow :) Job 925. Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. Job 109. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? 20. Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 21. Before I go whence I shall not return, eren to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; Job 13:12. Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay, 25. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? 28. He, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. Gen. 18:27. Job 14:1. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2. He cometh! forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Job 17:1. My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Psa. 22:29. None can keep alive his own soul. Psa. 39:4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. 6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. 11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his is: wherefore dust tol Hair 1 D1 soul from the hand if the mate Psa há The times II: the; and sayest Bent pe Psa. 102:11. My days on the a shadthat declineth; and I am withered grass. Psa. 103:14. He kaweth our frame: remembereth that we adat 4 Psa. 144:4. Man is like to vanity: his dis are as a shadow that passeth awr pi Psa. 146:4. His breath geth forth bene turneth to his earth; in that very day hi thoughts perish. Prov. 27:1. Boast not thyself of to mo row; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Feel. 1:4. One generation passeth amy and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. Eccl. 6:12. Who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vi life which he spendeth as a shadow! {: who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? Isa. 2:22. Cease ve from man, whe breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is het be accounted of? Isa. 38:12. Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent:! have cut off like a weaver my life: he wil cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. Isa. 40:6. All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 7. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD blow eth upon it: surely the people is grass. 24. Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 1 Pet. 1:24. LIFE.-EVERLASTING. Isa. 50:9. Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Isa. 51:8. The moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: 12. Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; Isa. 64:6. We all do fade as a leaf; Jas. 1:10. As the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. Jas. 4:14. Ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. See DEATH. EVERLASTING: Psa. 21:4. He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever. Psa. 121:8. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. Psa. 133:3. The LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. Isa. 25:8. He will swallow up death in victory; Dan. 12:2. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Matt. 19:16. And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? 17. And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 18. He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, 19. Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 20. The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? 21. Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in [Luke heaven: and come and follow me. 18:18.] 29. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. Mark 10:30. Matt. 25:46. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Luke 18:30. Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting. Luke 20:36. Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; John 3:14. And as Moses lifted up the ser- John 4:14. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. John 5:24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 29. And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. 39. Search [Ye search, R. V.] the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: John 6:27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. 40. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. 47. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He cometh that believeth on me hath everlasting life. 50. This is the bread which 51. I am the living down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my 52. The Jews therefore strove flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 57. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, 68. Then Simon Peter and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. 795 58. John 10:10. I am come that they might life and immortality to light through the have life, and that they might have it more gospel: abundantly. 27. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28. And I give unto them eternal life; John 12:25. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 50. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: John 17:2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Acts 13:46. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 48. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. Rom. 2:7. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: Rom. 5:21. That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 6:22. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Cor. 15:53. This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 2 Cor. 5:1. For we know that, if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Gal. 6:8. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 1 Tim. 1:16. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. 1 Tim. 4:8. Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 1 Tim. 6:12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. 2. 19. Tit. 1:2. In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; Tit. 3:7. Being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 1 John 2:25. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. 1 John 3:15. Ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 1 John 5:11. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 20. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. Jude 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Rev. 1:18. I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. See IMMORTALITY. FROM GOD: Gen. 2:7. The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Deut. 8:3. Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. Deut. 30:20. That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD Sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, togive them. Deut. 32:39. See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 1 Sam. 2:6. The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. Job 27:3. All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; Job 34:14. If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; 15. All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. Psa. 22:29. None can keep alive his own soul. Psa. 30:3. O LORD, thou hast brought up 2 Tim. 1:10. Our Saviour Jesus Christ, my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me who hath abolished death, and hath brought | alive, that I should not go down to the pit. LIFE.--LONG-SPIRITUAL. Psa. 68:20. Unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death. Psa. 104:30. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth. things, and ye believe not, how shall ye be Eccl. 12:7. Then shall the dust return to Isa. 38:16. O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. 17. Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 18. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 19. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. 20. The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD. Acts 17:25. He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 26. And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 28. For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Rom. 4:17. God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 1 Tim. 6:13. I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, Jas. 4:15. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. LONG: See LONGEVITY. up: 15. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 5:24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. 25. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26. For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; 40. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. John 6:27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. 33. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 35. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. 40. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. 47. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. John 10:10. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 14:6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. SPIRITUAL: John 3:3. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he John 11:25. Jesus said unto her, I am the cannot see the kingdom of God. 4. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be resurrection, and the life: he that believeth born when he is old? can he enter the sec-in me, though he were dead, yet shall he ond time into his mother's womb, and be live: 26. And whosoever liveth and believborn? 5. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I eth in me shall never die. say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter in6. That which is to the kingdom of God. born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. 9. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 10. Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? 11. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 12. If I have told you earthly John 17:2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 20:31. But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. Rom. 6:4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5. For if we have 797 |