Bible Verses About Longevity

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

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.

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

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

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

So Job died, being old and full of days.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

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

The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

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

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

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the Lord, that I die not:

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

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.

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

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

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

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

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

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.