God, living and self-sustaining

God is alive and active. In contrast to idols, he is uncreated and the source of all continuing life.

God is alive

Jeremiah 10:10 See also Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 5:26; Joshua 3:10; Jeremiah 23:36; Matthew 26:63; 1 Timothy 3:15; Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 12:22

But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

God lives for ever

Isaiah 57:15 See also Daniel 4:34, Daniel 12:7; Revelation 4:9–10, Revelation 10:6, Revelation 15:7

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

God is self-existent

John 5:26 See also Exodus 3:14; John 8:58; Acts 17:25

For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

The living God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit

John 6:57; 2 Corinthians 3:3 See also Matthew 16:16; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Hebrews 7:24

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

The living God is to be worshipped

Daniel 6:26 See also Daniel 6:20; Romans 9:26; Hosea 1:10; 2 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Timothy 4:10; Hebrews 9:14

I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.

Turning away from the living God is sin

Hebrews 3:12 See also 1 Samuel 17:26, 1 Samuel 17:36; 2 Kings 19:4 parallel Isaiah 37:4; 2 Kings 19:16 parallel Isaiah 37:17; Hebrews 10:31

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

The living God contrasts with dead idols

Acts 14:15 See also 1 Kings 18:26–29; Psalm 115:2–7; Isaiah 46:1–4; Jeremiah 10:3–6; 1 Thessalonians 1:9

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

God is the source of life

Deuteronomy 30:20 See also John 1:4

and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

God gives life to created beings

Genesis 2:7 See also Job 27:3; Psalm 104:30; Isaiah 40:28; Acts 17:25, Acts 17:28

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

God sustains the life of all people

Psalm 54:4 See also 1 Chronicles 29:14; Psalm 3:5, Psalm 18:35, Psalm 146:9, Psalm 147:6; Isaiah 46:4; Hebrews 1:3

Surely God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

God gives spiritual life

John 10:28 See also John 5:21, John 11:25, John 14:6; 1 Peter 1:23

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

God is the source of new life

Psalm 42:2 See also Psalm 63:1, Psalm 84:2; John 3:1–8

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?