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Bible Verses About Biblical Longevity

This collection includes 50 passages about Biblical Longevity. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.

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For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

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They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

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But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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Thou wilt prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.

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For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

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

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And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

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I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

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And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

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That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

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Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

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And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

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Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.

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And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

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That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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So Job died, being old and full of days.

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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.

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And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

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There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

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But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

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And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

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And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

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And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

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And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.

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What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

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That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

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

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

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And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

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His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:

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And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

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For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

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Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

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Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

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And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:

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For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

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They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

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And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

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And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

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