60 Bible Verses about Life, Human

And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;

The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.

My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;

For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring.

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

And he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place at any time:

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

Then have no fear; you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth. And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man. Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself; (Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.) So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?

In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.

For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young. You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.

He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.

But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory; For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope. O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am. You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.) Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.

Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth: And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters: And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.read more.
And Seth was a hundred and five years old when he became the father of Enosh: And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters: And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end. And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan: And after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters: And all the years of Enosh were nine hundred and five: and he came to his end. And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel: And after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters: And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end. And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared: And after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters: And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end. And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch: And Jared went on living after the birth of Enoch for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters: And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to his end. And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah: And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters: And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five: And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him. And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech: And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters: And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end. And Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he had a son: And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God. And after the birth of Noah, Lamech went on living for five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters: And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he came to his end. And when Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters; And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters: And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:read more.
And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber: And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters: And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg: And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters: And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu: And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters: And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug: And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters: And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor: And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters: And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah: And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters: And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. And Sarai had no child. And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time. And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you. All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.

And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.

You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.

For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.

With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.