27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him. (John 6:27) Going after the physical is vanity, being led by God's Spirit leads to everlasting life...
Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” ...
and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for—in order to the obedience of faith—Lest they should think, from what he had just said, that God had brought in upon his people so vast a change on their condition...
as a “pattern” for a sinner saved by grace, “Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern (ὑποτύπωσις (hypotypōsis)) G5296to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting....
In prayer with his apostles—only hours before his death—Jesus petitioned: “Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you. This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you,the only true God,and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.”...