65 Bible Verses about Life, Human

And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And you killed the Prince of Life, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

nor is served with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives life and breath and all things to all.

Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

For You have possessed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb.

But you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of Heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before you; and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor know. And you have not glorified the God in whose hand is your breath and all your ways.

For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also certain of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.

who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears. Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.

O Jehovah, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I know how frail I am.

And he said to him, Behold, here am I. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I do not know the day of my death.

Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, and we will trade and will make a profit, who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.

Therefore do not fear, you are of more value than many sparrows.

And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth. And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female.

and surely the blood of your lives will I require. At the hand of every animal will I require it, and at the hand of man. At the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood shall be shed by man; for He made man in the image of God.

A man cannot at all redeem a brother, nor give to God a ransom for him, for the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever, yea, he shall yet live forever; he shall never see corruption.

I will praise You; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are marvelous and my soul knows it very well.

For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world and loses himself, or is cast away?

in that I command you today to love Jehovah your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, so that you may live and multiply. And Jehovah your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it.

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

For You are my hope, O Lord God, my trust from my youth. On You I have rested from the womb; You are He who took me out of my mother's bowels; my praise always shall be of You.

O Jehovah, I know that the way of man does not belong to man; it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does Jehovah require of you but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?

He who finds his life shall lose it. And he who loses his life for My sake shall find it.

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

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

But man, though high in honor, does not remain; he is like the animals that perish.

As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.

My generation is departed and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver; He will cut me off from the loom; from day even to night You will make an end of me.

But I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by a reminder, knowing that the putting off of my tabernacle is soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

For we are strangers before You, and pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides.

Man born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are ended without hope. Remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall no more see good.

for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.

O Jehovah, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I know how frail I am. Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man standing is altogether vanity. Selah. Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.

Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain?

So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom.

My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.

Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away.

The voice said, Cry! And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the beauty of it is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of Jehovah blows on it; surely the people is grass. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the Word of our God shall stand forever.

Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:

but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.

And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his own likeness, after his own image. And he called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after he had fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years. And he died.read more.
And Seth lived one hundred and five years and fathered Enos. And after he fathered Enos, Seth lived eight hundred and seven years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years. And he died. And Enosh lived ninety years and fathered Cainan. And after he fathered Cainan, Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years. And he died. And Cainan lived seventy years and fathered Mahalaleel. And after he fathered Mahalaleel, Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years and fathered Jared. And after he fathered Jared, Mahalaleel lived eight hundred and thirty years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years. And he died. And Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years and fathered Enoch. And after he fathered Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years. And he died. And Enoch lived sixty-five years and fathered Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah. And he fathered sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God, and then he was not, for God took him. And Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years and fathered Lamech. And after he fathered Lamech, Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years. And he died. And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years and fathered a son. And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed. And after he fathered Noah, Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years. And he died. And Noah was five hundred years old. And Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. And after he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Salah.read more.
And after he fathered Salah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And Salah lived thirty years and fathered Eber. And after he fathered Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg. And after he fathered Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu. After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived two hundred and nine years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug. And after he fathered Serug, Reu lived two hundred and seven years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor. And after he fathered Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah. And after he fathered Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years. And he fathered sons and daughters. And Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot. And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai. And the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren. She had no child. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there. And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.

Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand, riches and honor.

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long upon the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God has commanded you, so that your days may be made longer, and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

And you shall serve Jehovah your God, and He shall bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. Nothing shall cast their young, nor be barren in your land. The number of your days I will fulfill.

And if you will walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

for they shall add length of days, and long life, and peace to you.

For by Me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.

The fear of Jehovah prolongs days; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

For he that wants to love life and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.

Who is the man that desires life, and loves days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

until He fills your mouth with laughter, and your lips with rejoicing.

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

I despise them; I will not live always; let me alone, for my days are vanity.