GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Eternal Life
See also Atone, Atonement; Celestial Glory; Crown; Exaltation; Life

To live forever as families in God's presence (D&C 132: 19-20, 24, 55). Eternal life is God's greatest gift to man.

Thou hast the words of eternal life, John 6: 68. This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, John 17: 3 (D&C 132: 24). Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, 1 Tim. 6: 12. People are free to choose liberty and eternal life, 2 Ne. 2: 27 (Hel. 14: 31). To be spiritually minded is life eternal, 2 Ne. 9: 39. Then are ye in the narrow path that leads to eternal life, 2 Ne. 31: 17-20. To believe in Christ and endure to the end is life eternal, 2 Ne. 33: 4 (3 Ne. 15: 9). He that hath eternal life is rich, D&C 6: 7 (D&C 11: 7). Eternal life is the greatest of all the gifts of God, D&C 14: 7 (Rom. 6: 23). The righteous will receive peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come, D&C 59: 23. Those who endure to the end shall have a crown of eternal life, D&C 66: 12 (D&C 75: 5). All who die without the gospel who would have received it had they lived are heirs of the celestial kingdom, D&C 137: 7-9. God's work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man, Moses 1: 39. God gives eternal life to the obedient, Moses 5: 11.