The tree of life shall give them fragrant perfume, and they shall neither toil nor become weary.

and it gave you Adam, a lifeless body? Yet he was the creation of your hands, and you breathed into him the breath of life, and he was made alive in your presence.

We pass from the world like locusts, and our life is like a mist, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.

He answered me and said, “Concerning the signs about which you ask me, I can tell you in part, but I was not sent to tell you concerning your life, for I do not know.

I said, “How have you said to your servant that you will certainly give life at one time to your creation? If therefore all creatures will live at one time and the creation will sustain them, it might even now be able to support all of them present at one time.”

The dumb and lifeless water produced living creatures, as it was commanded, so that therefore the nations might declare your wondrous works.

For an evil heart has grown up in us that has alienated us from these and has brought us into corruption and the ways of death and has shown us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life—and that not merely for a few but for almost all who have been created.”

The first order: because they have striven with great effort to overcome the evil thought that was formed with them, so that it might not lead them astray from life into death.

The third order: they see the witness that he who formed them bears concerning them, that throughout their life they kept the law with which they were entrusted.

The seventh order, which is greater than all that have been mentioned: because they shall rejoice with boldness and shall be confident without confusion and shall be glad without fear, for they press forward to see the face of him whom they served in life and from whom they are to receive their reward when glorified.

Or that the glory of the Most High will defend those who have led a pure life, but we have walked in the most wicked ways?

For this is the way of which Moses, while he was alive, spoke to the people, saying, ‘Choose life for yourself, so that you may live!’

for if he did not make them abound, the world with those who inhabit it would not have life—

and he is called the giver because if he did not give out of his goodness so that those who have committed iniquities might be relieved of them, not one ten-thousandth of humankind could have life;

And because you give life to the body that is now fashioned in the womb and furnish it with members, what you have created is preserved amid fire and water, and for nine months the womb endures your creature that has been created in it.

because it is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established, and wisdom is perfected beforehand.

but those who were created have themselves defiled the name of him who made them and have been ungrateful to him who prepared life for them now.

For as many as did not acknowledge me in their lifetime, though they received my benefits,

for you have devoted your life to wisdom and called understanding your mother.

Now, therefore, set your house in order, and reprove your people; comfort the lowly among them, and instruct those who are wise. And now renounce the life that is corruptible,

and received the law of life, which they did not keep, which you also have transgressed after them.

He formed humans and put a heart in the midst of each body and gave each person breath and life and understanding