Theological Comparison
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Conditional Immortality
“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.”
“That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.”
“To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:”
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
“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.”
“Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.”
Inherent Immortality
“And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
“For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;”
“Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.”
“Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.”
“Then Bath–sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.”
“Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:”
“And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?”
“The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.”
“I am the living 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 flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
“And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:”
“For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.”
“That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.”
“They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.”
“Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.”
“Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.”
“Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?”
“This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.”
“And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”
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