42 Bible Verses About Eternal Perspective

Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

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

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

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.

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

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;

I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.

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.

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.

I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.

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

Better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

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

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;