Bible Verses about βmidlife crisisβ
The Bible contains 44 verses about midlife crisis across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.β
βΒΆ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,β
βDoth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;β
βBeareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.β
βRejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;β
βΒΆ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.β
β[Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.β
βWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.β
βΒΆ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:β
βAnd now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.β
βFor now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.β
βAnd though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.β
βBut when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.β
βAnd though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.β
βFor we know in part, and we prophesy in part.β
βKnowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.β
βΒΆ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;β
βΒΆ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.β
βBut let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.β
βBlessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.β
βIf any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.β
βEvery good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.β
βFor the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.β
βPure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.β
βIf any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.β
βBut be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.β
βBut every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.β
βBut let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.β
βThen when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.β
βBut whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.β
βΒΆ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.β
βFor if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:β
βFor he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.β
βA double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.β
βFor let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.β
βΒΆ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:β
βDo not err, my beloved brethren.β
βOf his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.β
βWherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.β
βBut the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.β
βLet the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:β
βFor the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.β
βΒΆ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.β
βFor the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;β
