Bible Verses about โmidlife crisisโ
The Bible contains 44 verses about midlife crisis across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.โ
โLove is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,โ
โdoesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;โ
โbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.โ
โdoesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;โ
โLove never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.โ
โBe free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."โ
โWhen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.โ
โSo, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;โ
โBut now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.โ
โFor now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.โ
โIf I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.โ
โbut when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.โ
โIf I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.โ
โFor we know in part, and we prophesy in part;โ
โknowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.โ
โCount it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,โ
โIf I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.โ
โLet endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.โ
โBlessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.โ
โBut if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.โ
โEvery good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.โ
โfor the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.โ
โPure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.โ
โIf anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless.โ
โBut be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.โ
โBut each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.โ
โBut let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.โ
โThen the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.โ
โBut he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.โ
โIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.โ
โFor if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;โ
โfor he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.โ
โHe is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.โ
โFor let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.โ
โLet no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.โ
โDon't be deceived, my beloved brothers.โ
โOf his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.โ
โTherefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.โ
โand the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.โ
โBut let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;โ
โFor the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.โ
โJames, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.โ
โFor the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,โ
