17 Bible Verses about Time Passing
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(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.
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.
All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
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.
And from the middle of the day they went on with their prayers till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them.
And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.
And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:
And as a long time had gone by, and the journey was now full of danger, because it was late in the year, Paul put the position before them,
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