23 Bible Verses about Age, Span Of Life

Which of you by anxious care can add one cubit to his stature?

And which of you by solicitude can add to his stature one cubit?

The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Whereas ye know not what will be on the morrow: For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Instead of that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died.

And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred and seventy five years.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was a hundred and forty seven years.

The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

And Barzillai said to the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? I am this day eighty years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing-men and singing-women? why then should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as a harlot.

LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth; and my age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, nor have they attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Remember how short my time is: why hast thou made all men in vain?

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth.read more.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

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

With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

My son, forget not my law; but let thy heart keep my commandments; For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.