9 Bible Verses about Long Life
Most Relevant Verses
In all the way that Jehovah your God hath commanded you shall ye walk, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest be long-lived on the earth.read more.
And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.
And ye shall serve Jehovah your God; and he shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness away from thy midst. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days will I fulfil.
For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.read more.
Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all my members were written; during many days were they fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.
And these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye may do them in the land whereunto ye pass over to possess it, that thou mayest fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will prolong thy days. And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
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Long life » Examples of vigorous » Feebleness in
they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)
in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows are darkened,
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
By faith Jacob when dying blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshipped on the top of his staff.
And king David was old and advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he obtained no warmth.
Long life » Examples of vigorous » Gray hairs, an indication of
they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.
And now behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and grey-headed; and behold, my sons are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth up to this day.
Long life » Examples of vigorous » Dimness of vision, in
And it came to pass when Isaac had become old, and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, that he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Here am I.
But the eyes of Israel were heavy from age: he could not see. And he brought them nearer to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
And it came to pass at that time, when Eli lay in his place (now his eyes began to grow dim, he could not see),
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, that he could not see.
in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows are darkened,
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Devoid of pleasure
And remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Long life » Examples of vigorous » moses
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Of the righteous, honourable
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » General references to
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Long life » Examples of vigorous » Caleb
I am still this day strong, as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in.
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Rules of conduct for
that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience; that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Divine presence in
Even to old age, I am HE, and unto hoary hairs I will carry you: It is I that have made, and I will bear, and I will carry, and will deliver.
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Prayer concerning
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Long life » Examples of vigorous » Anna
And there was a prophetess, Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was far advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity,
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