Answer: Christ is our life, (verse 4).
MORE INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
John 5:39-40: [Jesus said,] "You
diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you
possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about
Me, yet you refuse to come to Me to have life."
John 11:25-27: "Jesus said to her
[Martha], 'I am the resurrection and the life. He who
believes in Me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives
and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe
this?' 'Yes, Lord,' she told Him, 'I
believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, Who was to come
into the world.'"
John 14:6: "Jesus answered,
'I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the
Father except through Me.'"
John 20:31: "But these are written
that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and
that by believing you may have life in His Name."
Romans 6:1-8: "What shall we say,
then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By
no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into His death? We were therefore buried
with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ
was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too
may live a new life. If we have been united with Him like
this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His
resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified
with Him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we
should no longer be slaves to sin--because anyone who has died
has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we
believe that we will also live with Him. For we know that since
Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no
longer has mastery over Him. The death He died, He died to sin once
for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God. In the same
way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ
Jesus."
Romans 8:9-17: "You, however, are
controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the
Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit
of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in
you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive
because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of Him Who raised
Jesus from the dead is living in you, He Who raised Christ from the
dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit,
Who lives in you. Therefore, brothers, we have an
obligation--but it is not to the sinful nature [the flesh], to
live according to it. For if you live according to the sinful
nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the
misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by
the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a
spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the
Spirit of sonship. And by Him we cry, "Abba,
Father.' The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit
that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we
are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we
share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His
glory."
1 Corinthians 6:19-20: "Do you not
know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you,
Whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were
bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your
body."
1 Corinthians 8:6: "yet for us
there is but One God, the Father, from Whom all things came and for
Whom we live; and there is but One Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom
all things came and through Whom we live."
Galatians 2:20: "I have been
crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who
loved me and gave Himself for me."
Galatians 5:22-25: "But the fruit
of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things
there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have
crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the
Spirit."
Galatians 6:14: "May I never boast
except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the
world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."
Ephesians 2:1-5: "As for you, you
were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to
live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of
the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who
are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time,
gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its
desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of
wrath. But because of His great love for us, God, Who is rich
in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in
transgressions--it is by grace you have been
saved."
Philippians 1:21: "For to me, to
live is Christ and to die is gain."
Colossians 2:6-7: "So then, just as
you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in Him, rooted
and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught,
and overflowing with thankfulness."
Colossians 2:13: "When you were
dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature,
God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our
sins..."
1 Peter 3:18: "For Christ died for
sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you
to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the
Spirit..."
1 John 5:20: "We know also that the
Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may
know Him Who is True. And we are in Him Who is True--even in
His Son Jesus Christ. He is the True God and Eternal
Life."
