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Eternal life
In plain words
Life with God that starts now when you trust Jesus and never ends.
Eternal life does not only mean living for ever. It means a new kind of life, the life of God Himself, that starts the moment you trust Jesus. Jesus said eternal life is to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He sent (John 17:3). Think of it as a friendship with God that begins today and death cannot end.
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Jesus said whoever hears His word and believes has eternal life and has crossed over from death to life (John 5:24). Notice the present tense: has, not will have one day. John writes so that you may know you have eternal life (1 John 5:11-13). That gives you a settled peace. You do not have to earn it every day. You receive it as a gift and live from it.
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Greek zoe aionios means life of the age, the life of the age to come. Jewish hope looked for that age after the resurrection, and Jesus says it breaks into the present for those who believe (John 3:16). It is both now and not yet: begun today, completed at the resurrection. Christians agree on this, while they differ on how certain a believer can be that they will remain in it.
My verses
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.