65 Bible Verses about Life, Human

Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.

You killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead. We witnessed this!

Men's hands do not serve him as if he needed anything. He gives life and breath to all.

Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to the grave and brings up.

The Spirit of God has made me. The Breath of the Almighty gives me life.

For you formed my inward parts. You wove me in my mother's womb.

You lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of his house before you and your lords, wives and concubines. They drank wine from them. You praise the gods of silver and gold, of copper, iron, wood, and stone, which you do not see, nor hear, nor know. You have not glorified the God whose hand holds your breath and life.

In him we live, and move, and have our existence. Your own poets have said: For we are also his offspring.

You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. You should say, If God wills, we should both live, and do this or that.

Jehovah, please make me to know my end. What is the extent of my days? Let me know how temporary (frail) (destitute) I am.

Isaac said: I am old. I do not know when I will die.

Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit. You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

Do not fear! You are more valuable than many sparrows.

Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground. God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female.

I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man. Whoever sheds the blood of man will have his blood shed by man. For man was made in the image of God.

No one can ever redeem (buy back) his brother or pay God a ransom for his life. The price to be paid for him is so costly it can never be paid so they should live forever and never see the grave (pit) (destruction).

I will praise you, for in an awesome way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful and I know this very well.

What will a man profit, if he gains the whole world, and gives up his life? What will a man give in exchange for his life?

For what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?

I command you today to Love Jehovah your God, follow his directions, and obey his commandments, laws, and rules. Then you will live, your population will increase, and Jehovah your God will bless you in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of Jehovah forever.

Lord Jehovah, I put my hope in you. I have trusted in you since I was young. I have relied on you all my life. You have protected me since the day I was born. I will always praise you.

O Jehovah, I know that humans are not able to govern their own lives. Humans cannot administer their own steps.

He told you, O lowly man, what is good and what Jehovah requires of you. You should display justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God!

Whoever finds his life will lose it. Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

The days of our lives are seventy or eighty years if we are in good health. But the best of them bring trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.

We know that if our earthly house (human body) (habitation of life) is destroyed; we have a building from God. It is an everlasting house in the heavens, not made with human hands.

But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die.

Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. The wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.

My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd's tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day.

I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by reminding you. I know that putting off my earthly dwelling is imminent, even as our Lord Jesus Christ indicated to me.

You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.

You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope. O God, remember that my life is but a breath. I will never again see good.

After all we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are a mere shadow.

My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.

He springs up like a flower and fades away. He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure.

Jehovah, please make me to know my end. What is the extent of my days? Let me know how temporary (frail) (destitute) I am. Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Every man walks about like a vain illusion. He makes a lot of noise over nothing. He hoards riches and does not know who will receive them.

Remember how short my life span is! Have you created the sons of men for no reason?

Teach us to number each of our days so that we may present to you a heart of wisdom.

My days are like a lengthened shadow and I wither away like grass.

Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of Jehovah blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.

Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.

But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.

In Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. After Seth was born, Adam lived eight hundred years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died.read more.
Seth lived one hundred and five years when he became the father of Enosh. After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years, and then he died. Enosh lived ninety years. He became the father of Kenan. After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years and had other sons and daughters. Enosh lived a total of nine hundred and five years, and then he died. Kenan lived seventy years. He became the father of Mahalalel. After that Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Kenan lived nine hundred and ten years, and then he died. When Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared. After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years and had other sons and daughters. Mahalalel lived a total of eight hundred and ninety-five years, and then he died. When Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, he became the father of Enoch. After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years and had other sons and daughters. Jared lived a total of nine hundred and sixty-two years, and then he died. When Enoch lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Methuselah. After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God. Then he was no more, because God took (moved) him away. When Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, he became the father of Lamech. After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred eighty-two years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and then he died. When Lamech had lived one hundred and eighty-two years, he had a son. He named him Noah. He said: He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed. After Noah was born, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years and had other sons and daughters. Lamech lived a total of seven hundred seventy-seven years, and then he died. After Noah was five hundred years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Noah lived a total of nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.

This is the genealogy of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was one hundred years old, he became the father of Arpachshad. After he became the father of Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years and had other sons and daughters. When Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah.read more.
After he became the father of Shelah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years and had other sons and daughters. Shelah lived thirty years. He became the father of Eber. After he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived four hundred and three years and had other sons and daughters. When Eber lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg. After he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years and had other sons and daughters. When Peleg lived thirty years, he became the father of Reu. After he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years and had other sons and daughters. When Reu lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug. After he became the father of Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years and had other sons and daughters. When Serug lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor. After he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years and had other sons and daughters. Nahor lived twenty-nine years; he became the father of Terah. After he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years and had other sons and daughters. Terah lived seventy years. He became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. This is the genealogy of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. Now Sarai was barren. She had no children. Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there. Terah lived two hundred and five years. He died in Haran.

Long life is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commands you and your days will be prolonged and things will go well with you, in the land Jehovah gives you.

You must serve Jehovah your God! I will bless your food and water. I will take away all sickness from among you. No woman in your land will miscarry or be unable to have children. I will let you live a normal life span.

If you obey me and keep my laws and commands, as your father David did, I will give you a long life.

You will come to your grave at a very old age like a stack of hay in its season.

My precepts will give you a long, peaceful, and prosperous life.

I will increase your days. I will add more years to your life.

Respect for Jehovah prolongs life. The years of the wicked will be shortened.

Whoever would love life and see good days should keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Which of you wants a full life? Who would like to live long enough to enjoy good things? Keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from deceit.

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.

I will satisfy you with a long life. I will show you my salvation.

I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.