Bible Verses About Lifespan
Bible verses about Lifespan
Discover what the Bible says about lifespan.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thou wilt prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
So Job died, being old and full of days.
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
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.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
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.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
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?
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.
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
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 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:
And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
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.
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.