Bible Verses About The passage of time

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

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

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

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.

Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

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

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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

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

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,

I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

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.

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.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

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

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

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

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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.

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

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: