eternal life
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7.4
- noun
- /ɪˈtɜrnəl laɪf/
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vida eterna
- And having forgiven your sins, may he lead you to eternal life.
- promise of eternal life
- hope for eternal life
- eternal life with God
That is also Jesus's promise of eternal life, because here there is no time.
- That is also Jesus's promise of eternal life, because here there is no time.
- It's going to be eternal life or eternal peace with God.
- You'd thought you'd had your will and destroyed the promise of eternal life, didn't you?
- Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.
- It's the only way to bring eternal life.
- So that then you can have an active relationship with God and eternal life with him and escape hell.
- Ergo, man pays the price of death, yet man also achieves eternal life.
- You can't buy peace, joy, happiness, contentment, and you certainly cannot buy eternal life.
- And once we start moving in life, not afraid of death, then we could truly have eternal life in him.
- Well, you can call it God, you can call it blessedness with God, you can call it eternal life.
- So that was a big, huge part of the Essene sevenfold path of peace was that we're meant to have eternal life.
- So as Jesus plus nothing equals eternal life plus good deeds.
- If you act in keeping with the constraints of morality, you get eternal life in a really nice place.
- Now, some people may have to first solve the problem of eternal life because maybe they just won't be able to do it fast enough.
Examples
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Believers in many religions hope to attain eternal life after death.
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While my hope for a healthy existence wavered, my hope in God and his gift of eternal life remained steady.
Fiction book (2002) -
So that then you can have an active relationship with God and eternal life with him and escape hell.
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I am born again to eternal life...
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May God lead you into the eternal life.
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And having eternal life gave me extra years with my loved ones.
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We are part of the body of Christ, and in Christ we have eternal life.
Fiction book (1998) -
But the verse says the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
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That is also Jesus's promise of eternal life, because here there is no time.
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"Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
224
5.8
Time that never ends, often imagined after death
73
7.2
A life that never ends
19
9.6
A situation that lasts forever
1
7.9
An endless state of being after death
1
7.5
A state of not being limited by time, for example in the afterlife
A state with no beginning or end, like life after death
A state of lasting forever
Lasting forever without a beginning or end
A state of seeming to last or really lasting without an end
A state of never dying or being remembered forever
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'life that has no beginning or end' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'eternal' (without end) with 'life' (span of existence). This compositional interpretation is cross‑linguistically common in religious and philosophical contexts, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Eternal life comes from old religious ideas that life continues after death. People pictured eternal as 'forever' and life as living on after death, so the phrase now means 'life that lasts forever'.