God, living and self-sustaining

God is alive

Jeremiah 10:10 LEB

10 But Yahweh is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king. Because of his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his anger.

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God lives for ever

Isaiah 57:15 LEB

15 For thus says the high and lofty one who resides forever, and whose name is holy: “I reside in a high and holy place, and with the contrite and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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God is self-existent

John 5:26 LEB

26 For just as the Father has life in himself, thus also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.

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The living God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit

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The living God is to be worshipped

Daniel 6:26 LEB

26 I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom people will be trembling and fearing before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God and endures forever and his kingdom is one that will not be destroyed and his dominion has no end.

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Turning away from the living God is sin

Hebrews 3:12 LEB

12 Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, with the result that you fall away from the living God.

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The living God contrasts with dead idols

Acts 14:15 LEB

15 and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things that are in them—

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God is the source of life

Deuteronomy 30:20 LEB

20 by loving Yahweh your God by listening to his voice and by clinging to him, for he is your life and the length of your days in order for you to live on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them.”

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God gives life to created beings

Genesis 2:7 LEB

7 when Yahweh God formed the man of dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

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God sustains the life of all people

Psalm 54:4 LEB

4 See, God is my helper; The Lord is with those who sustain my life.

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God gives spiritual life

John 10:28 LEB

28 And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish forever, and no one will seize them out of my hand.

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God is the source of new life

Psalm 42:2 LEB

2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

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