Eternal Life (Zoe and Zao)
The relationship between Grace and faith applies to accessing the eternal life that is inside of us: All that Jesus is. All that Jesus was. All that He will be. Jesus was talking about all that would be inside us in His resurrected state.
Galatians 2:20 (KJV) – I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1 Timothy 6:12 (KJV) – Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Romans 1:17 (KJV) – For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Zoe – 2222
Strong’s Definition
From G2198; life (literally or figuratively): – life (-time). Compare G5590.
Thayer’s Definition
1) life
1a) the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate
1b) every living soul
2) life
2a) of the absolute fulness of life, both essential and ethical, which belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic “logos” and to Christ in whom the “logos” put on human nature
2b) life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God, blessed, in the portion even in this world of those who put their trust in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new accessions (among them a more perfect body), and to last for ever.
Zao – 2196
Strong’s Definition
A primary verb; to live (literally or figuratively): – life (-time), (a-) live (-ly), quick.
Thayer’s Definition
1) to live, breathe, be among the living (not lifeless, not dead)
2) to enjoy real life
2a) to have true life and worthy of the name
2b) active, blessed, endless in the kingdom of God
3) to live, i.e. pass life, in the manner of the living and acting
3a) of mortals or character
4) living water, having vital power in itself and exerting the same upon the soul
5) metaphorically to be in full vigour
5a) to be fresh, strong, efficient
5b) as adjective active, powerful, efficacious
John 4:11 (KJV) – The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
John 6:51 (KJV) – 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.
John 6:57 (KJV) – As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
John 7:38 (KJV) – He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John 11:26 (KJV) – And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
John 14:19 (KJV) – Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Acts 1:3 (KJV) – To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: