65 Bible Verses about Life, Human

And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

neither by the hands of men is He served -- needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;

Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me.

For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.

and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand is thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured.

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it is,' I know how frail I am.

And he saith, 'Lo, I pray thee, I have become aged, I have not known the day of my death;

Go, now, ye who are saying, 'To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

be not therefore afraid, than many sparrows ye are better.

And God saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.' And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

'And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man's brother I require the life of man; whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement. And precious is the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased -- to the age. And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit.

I confess Thee, because that with wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful are Thy works, And my soul is knowing it well.

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?

in that I am commanding thee to-day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments; and thou hast lived and multiplied, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in the land whither thou art going in to possess it.

Only -- goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling is in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!

For Thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth. By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee is my praise continually.

I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man is his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

He hath declared to thee, O man, what is good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

'He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

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

Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,

And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth; For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.

My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding you, having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,

for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope. Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

(For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)

My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,

As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.

Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it is,' I know how frail I am. Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah. Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

To number our days aright let us know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

A voice is saying, 'Call,' And he said, 'What do I call?' All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is As a flower of the field: Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people is grass; Withered hath grass, faded the flower, But a word of our God riseth for ever.

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die.'

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth a son in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth. And the days of Adam after his begetting Seth are eight hundred years, and he begetteth sons and daughters. And all the days of Adam which he lived are nine hundred and thirty years, and he dieth.read more.
And Seth liveth an hundred and five years, and begetteth Enos. And Seth liveth after his begetting Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And all the days of Seth are nine hundred and twelve years, and he dieth. And Enos liveth ninety years, and begetteth Cainan. And Enos liveth after his begetting Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And all the days of Enos are nine hundred and five years, and he dieth. And Cainan liveth seventy years, and begetteth Mahalaleel. And Cainan liveth after his begetting Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And all the days of Cainan are nine hundred and ten years, and he dieth. And Mahalaleel liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Jared. And Mahalaleel liveth after his begetting Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And all the days of Mahalaleel are eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he dieth. And Jared liveth an hundred and sixty and two years, and begetteth Enoch. And Jared liveth after his begetting Enoch eight hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And all the days of Jared are nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he dieth. And Enoch liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Methuselah. And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch are three hundred and sixty and five years. And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him. And Methuselah liveth an hundred and eighty and seven years, and begetteth Lamech. And Methuselah liveth after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth. And Lamech liveth an hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth a son, and calleth his name Noah, saying, 'This one doth comfort us concerning our work, and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.' And Lamech liveth after his begetting Noah five hundred and ninety and five years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And all the days of Lamech are seven hundred and seventy and seven years, and he dieth. And Noah is a son of five hundred years, and Noah begetteth Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dieth.

These are births of Shem: Shem is a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge. And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.read more.
And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber. And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg. And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu. And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug. And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor. And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah. And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters. And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And these are births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot; and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife is Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife is Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah. And Sarai is barren -- she hath no child. And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, and dwell there. And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.

Length of days is in her right hand, In her left are wealth and honour.

'Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

'Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

'And ye have served Jehovah your God, and He hath blessed thy bread and thy water, and I have turned aside sickness from thine heart; there is not a miscarrying and barren one in thy land; the number of thy days I fulfil:

and if thou dost walk in My ways to keep My statutes, and My commands, as David thy father walked, then I have prolonged thy days.'

Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.

The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

for 'he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;

Who is the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good? Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,

With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.