living word
Term still used
Living word typically refers to scripture or religious teaching understood not as static text but as spiritually active and transformative.
In Christian contexts, it often means the Bible regarded as God's ongoing communication with believers, or Christ himself as divine revelation: The pastor spoke of Scripture as the living word.
The phrase emphasizes that certain texts speak freshly to each generation rather than remaining fixed in historical meaning.
- scriptureSacred religious writings
- breathAir taken in
- gospelSacred choral tradition
- good newsFavorable information received
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
eternal · truth · speak · voice · prophetic · still small voice · incarnate · divine · flesh · logos · revelation · bible · holy · utterance · testament · message · inspired · written
living, word, live, lived, lives, alive, lively, livelihood, liveliness