Bible Verses About Awareness of Mortality

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.