Bible Verses about โeternityโ
The Bible contains 37 verses about eternity across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.โ
โFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.โ
โInasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,โ
โIf I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.โ
โIn my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.โ
โHe who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.โ
โFor my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.โ
โBut as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:โ
โThis is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."โ
โHe has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.โ
โAs the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.โ
โJesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.โ
โThis is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.โ
โHe who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.โ
โThese will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."โ
โIt is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.โ
โHe said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.โ
โJesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"โ
โFor he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.โ
โI am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."โ
โNow he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.โ
โJesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"โ
โSimon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.โ
โWe have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."โ
โBut there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.โ
โHe said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."โ
โTherefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"โ
โBut Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?โ
โThen what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?โ
โAt this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.โ
โThe Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"โ
โ"Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.โ
โThis is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.โ
โFor thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.โ
โwho will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,โ
โBefore the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.โ
โBut I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.โ
