Bible Verses About Life Span
Bible verses about Life Span
Discover what the Bible says about life span.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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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.
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 by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Scripture Passages
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
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.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Thou wilt prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
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.
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.
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
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.
And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.