Vida eterna
A vida eterna é a promessa central do evangelho. Não se trata apenas de duração infinita, mas de qualidade de vida em comunhão com Deus, começando aqui e se estendendo pela eternidade.
O dom gratuito da vida eterna
A vida eterna é um presente de Deus, não resultado de obras humanas. É dada gratuitamente a quem crê em Jesus Cristo.
Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted, but should have eternal life.
Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted, but should have eternal life.
Now eternal life is this: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One whom You sent—Jesus Christ.
Now eternal life is this: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One whom You sent—Jesus Christ.
A certeza para quem crê
Quem está em Cristo tem a certeza de que passou da morte para a vida. Nada pode arrebatar o crente da mão de Deus.
"Most assuredly I say to you that the one listening to my word and believing on Him who sent me has eternal life; he will not go into judging but has moved out of the death into the Life.
"Most assuredly I say to you that a time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of the God, and those who listen will live.
The one believing into the Son has eternal life, but the one disobeying the Son will not see the Life, but the wrath of God will remain upon him."
The one believing into the Son has eternal life, but the one disobeying the Son will not see the Life, but the wrath of God will remain upon him."
Now this is the will of the Father who sent me, that I should lose nothing out of all that He has given me, but should raise it up at the last day. Again this is the will of Him who sent me, that everyone who ‘sees’ the Son and believes into Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."
Most assuredly I say to you: the one believing into me has eternal life.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. And I give them eternal life, and they will never ever be wasted; and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
And I give them eternal life, and they will never ever be wasted; and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one."
O caminho para a eternidade
Jesus é o caminho para a vida eterna. Crer nele, segui-lo e perseverar na fé são os passos que nos conduzem à eternidade com Deus.
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never ever thirst; rather, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water, welling up into eternal life."
Do not work for the food that wastes away but for the food that endures into life eternal, which the Son of the Man will give you; because on Him God the Father has set His seal." So they said to Him, "What should we do so that we may work the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe into the One whom He sent."
So Simon Peter answered Him: "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
"Go in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate and broad is the way which leads away into perdition, and those who are going in through it are many. How narrow is the gate and confined the way which leads away into life, and those who are finding it are few!" find the way of life. He Himself makes clear that to travel the way of life requires commitment to the Owner of that ‘way’. Perhaps 1% of the Greek manuscripts have the weaker "Because narrow…", as in KJV and NKJV.
"Go in through the narrow gate; because wide is the gate and broad is the way which leads away into perdition, and those who are going in through it are many. How narrow is the gate and confined the way which leads away into life, and those who are finding it are few!" find the way of life. He Himself makes clear that to travel the way of life requires commitment to the Owner of that ‘way’. Perhaps 1% of the Greek manuscripts have the weaker "Because narrow…", as in KJV and NKJV.
The one ‘finding’ his life will lose it, and the one ‘losing’ his life for my sake will find it.
And they will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
In answer Jesus said: "I tell you assuredly, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields, for my sake and for that of the Gospel, who will not receive a hundred times more, now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and father and mother and children and fields (with persecutions)—and in the age to come, eternal life.
And then, a certain lawyer stood up to test Him, saying, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" So He said to him: "What is written in the Law? How do you read it?" In answer he said: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and, your neighbor as yourself." So He said to him, "You have answered correctly; do this and you will live!"
Perseverança e glória futura
A vida eterna exige perseverança. Os sofrimentos presentes não se comparam com a glória que será revelada. Deus nos guardará até o fim.
because our light, momentary affliction is working out for us an eternal and limitless measure of glory,
as we do not focus on the seen, but on the not seen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.
Do not be deceived, God does not allow Himself to be treated with contempt; because whatever a man sows, that he will also reap —he who sows to his own flesh will reap deterioration from that flesh; he who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from that Spirit.
—he who sows to his own flesh will reap deterioration from that flesh; he who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from that Spirit.
A eternidade com Deus
A Bíblia descreve a plenitude da vida eterna: sem dor, sem lágrimas, em perfeita comunhão com Deus para sempre.