Bible Verses about βhow long we will liveβ
The Bible contains 47 verses about how long we will live across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βAnd we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.β
βThine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.β
βFor the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.β
βΒΆ Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.β
βFor I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us.β
βNay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.β
βFor I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,β
βNor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.β
βFor to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace.β
βΒΆ [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.β
βWhereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.β
βBecause the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.β
βΒΆ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.β
βFor they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.β
βΒΆ What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?β
βAnd he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.β
βSo then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.β
βWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?β
βΒΆ 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.β
βMoreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.β
βAs it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.β
βΒΆ So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.β
βBut ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.β
βFor we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.β
βBecause the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.β
βBut if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.β
βWho [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.β
βFor the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.β
βFor the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.β
βFor as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.β
βFor the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope,β
βFor ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.β
βBut if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it].β
βThe 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.β
βFor if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.β
βThe Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:β
βHe that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?β
βΒΆ And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.β
βAnd not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.β
βFor what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:β
βThat the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.β
βTherefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.β
ββΉAnd I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall anyβΊ [man] βΉpluck them out of my hand.βΊβ
βFor we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?β
βWho shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth.β
βΒΆ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together.β
βSeeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;β
