Mark 8:35FOR whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.  :36 FOR what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 

 

Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Life

LIFE, n. plu lives. [See Live.]

5. Manner of living; conduct; deportment, in regard to morals.

I will teach my family to lead good lives.

6. Condition; course of living, in regard to happiness and misery. We say, a man's life has been a series of prosperity, or misfortune.

20. The enjoyments or blessings of the present life.

Having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 1 Tim 4.