65 Bible Verses about Life, Human

Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mold of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.

and killed the Lord of life whom God hath raised from death, of the which we are witnesses:

neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed of any thing. Seeing he himself giveth life and breath to all men everywhere,

The LORD killeth and maketh alive; bringeth down to hell and fetcheth up again.

The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the almighty hath given me my life.

For my reins are thine, thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

but hast magnified thyself above the LORD of heaven, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee: that thou, and thy lords, with thy queen and concubines, might drink wine thereout: and hast praised the Idols of silver and gold, copper and iron, of wood and stone. As for the God in whose hand consisteth thy breath and all thy ways: thou hast not loved him.

For in him we live, move, and have our being, as certain of your own poets said. For we are also his generation.

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that, ye ought to say, "If the Lord will, and if we live, let us do this or that."

"LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

And he said, "Behold, I am old and know not the day of my death:

Go to now, ye that say, "Today and tomorrow let us go into such a city and continue there a year and buy, and sell, and win," and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

And God said, "Let us make man in our similitude and after our likeness: that he may have rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over all worms that creep on the earth." And God created man after his likeness, after the likeness of God created he him; male and female created he them.

For verily the blood of you, wherein your lives are, will I require: Even of the hand of all beasts will I require it, and of the hand of man and of the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man: so that he which sheddeth man's blood, shall have his blood shed by man again: for God made man after his own likeness.

But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him, for it costeth more to redeem their souls, so that he must let that alone forever. Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave.

I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well!

What shall it profit a man, though he should win all the whole world, if he lose his own soul? Or else, what shall a man give to redeem his soul again withal?

For what shall it advantage a man, to win the whole world, if he lose himself: or run in damage of himself?

in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God and to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his ordinances and his laws: that thou mayest live and multiply, and that the LORD thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

O let thy loving-kindness and mercy follow me all the days of my life, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

For thou, O LORD God, art the thing that I long for; thou art my hope even from my youth. I have leaned upon thee ever since I was born; thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb, therefore is my praise always of thee.

Now I know, O LORD, that it is not in man's power to order his own ways, or to rule his own steps and goings.

I will show thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requireth of thee: Namely, to do right, to have pleasure in loving-kindness, to be lowly, and to walk with thy God.

He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.

For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage.

The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:

Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them.

that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field. For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.

Mine age is folden up together, and taken away from me, like a shepherd's cottage: my life is hewn off, like as a weaver cutteth off his web. While I was yet taking my rest, he hewed me off, and made an end of me in one day.'

Notwithstanding, I think it mete, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; forasmuch as I am sure how that the time is at hand that I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me.

For we be but strangers before thee and tenants, as were all our fathers. Our days on the earth is but a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. "O remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall no more see the pleasures thereof;

For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.

"My days are more swift than a runner: they are gone, and have seen no good thing.

He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.

"LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live. Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought?

O teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow.

The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field. When the grass is withered, the flower falleth away. Even so is the people as grass, when the breath of the LORD bloweth upon them. Nevertheless whether the grass wither, or the flower fade away: Yet the word of our God endureth forever."

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by the means of sin; And so death went over all men, insomuch that all men sinned.

But of the tree of knowledge of good and bad see that thou eat not: For even the same day thou eatest of it, thou shalt surely die.

For as by Adam all die; even so by Christ, shall all be made alive,

And when Adam was a hundred and thirty years old, he begat a son after his likeness and similitude: and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam, after he begat Seth, were eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Adam which he lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died.read more.
And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enos. And after he had begot Enos he lived eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and died. And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Kenan. And Enos, after he begat Kenan, lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and then he died. And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel. And Kenan, after he had begot Mahalalel, lived eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and then he died. And Mahalalel lived sixty five years, and begat Jared. And Mahalalel, after he had begot Jared, lived eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years, and then he died. And Jared lived a hundred and sixty two years, and begat Enoch: and Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty two years, and then he died. And Enoch lived sixty five years, and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God, after he had begot Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years, and then Enoch lived a godly life, and was no more seen - for God took him away. And Methuselah lived a hundred and eighty seven years and begat Lamech: and Methuselah, after he had begot Lamech, lived seven hundred and eighty two years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty nine years, and then he died. And Lamech lived a hundred eighty two years and begat a son, and called him Noah, saying, "This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the LORD hath cursed." And Lamech lived, after he had begot Noah, five hundred, ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy seven years, and then he died. And when Noah was five hundred years old, he begat Shem, Ham and Japheth.

So that all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood. And Shem lived, after he had begot Arpachshad, five hundred years and begat sons and daughters. And Arpachshad lived thirty five years and begat Shelah,read more.
and lived, after he had begot Shelah, four hundred years and three and begat sons and daughters. And Shelah was thirty years old and begat Eber, and lived, after he had begot Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. When Eber was thirty four years old, he begat Peleg, and lived, after he had begot Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And Peleg when he was thirty years old begat Reu, and lived after he had begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. And Reu, when he had lived thirty two years, begat Serug, and lived after he had begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And when Serug was thirty years old, he begat Nahor, and lived, after he had begot Nahor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Nahor, when he was twenty nine years old, begat Terah, and lived, after he had begot Terah, a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And when Terah was seventy years old, he begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot. And Haran died before Terah his father, in the land where he was born, at Ur in Chaldea. And Abram and Nahor took them wives. Abram's wife was called Sarai. And Nahor's wife, Milcah the daughter of Haran; which was father of Milcah and of Iscah. But Sarai was barren and had no child. Then took Terah: Abram his son, and Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelled there. And when Terah was two hundred years old and five he died in Haran.

Upon her righthand is long life, and upon her left hand is riches and honour.

"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

'Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: that thou mayest prolong thy days, and that it may go well with thee on the land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

And see that ye serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread and thy water, and I will take all sicknesses away from among you. "Moreover there shall be no woman childless or unfruitful in thy land, and the number of thy days I will fulfill.

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep mine ordinances and commandments as David thy father did walk, I will lengthen thy days also."

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.

For they shall prolong the days and years of thy life, and bring thee peace.

For through me thy days shall be prolonged, and the years of thy life shall be many.

The fear of the LORD maketh a long life; but the years of the ungodly shall be shortened.

If any man long after life, and loveth to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak not guile:

What man is he that lusteth to live, and would fain see good days? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile.

Thy mouth shall be full with laughing, and thy lips with gladness.

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

I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.