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What Does the Bible Say About How Long We Will Live?

Here are 8 Bible verses about how long we will live, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Genesis 6:3

    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.

    BSBSo the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

  2. #2Psalms 90:10

    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.

    BSBThe length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

  3. #3Job 14:5

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

    BSBSince his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

  4. #4James 4:14

    Whereas 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.

    BSBYou do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

  5. #5Psalms 139:16

    Thine 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.

    BSBYour eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

  6. #6Psalms 90:12

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

    BSBSo teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

  7. #7John 10:28

    And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

    BSBI give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

  8. #8Romans 6:23

    For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

    BSBFor the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Verse rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY). Scripture: KJV & BSB (public domain).

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