9 Bible Verses about Long Life
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With length of days will I satisfy him, and I will cause him to look upon my salvation.
In all the way that Jehovah your God commanded you, ye shall go, so that ye shall live and it be well to you, and ye prolonged the days upon the land which ye shall possess.
Children, listen to your parents in the Lord: for this is just. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first command with solemn promise;) That it may be well to thee, and thou mayest be long time upon earth.read more.
And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.
And serve ye Jehovah your God, and he blessed thy bread, and thy waters; and I turned away disease from the midst of thee. And there shall not be bereaving of children or barren upon thy land: the number of thy days I will fill up.
For thou didst possess my reins: thou wilt cover me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I was wonderfully distinguished: thy works are wonders, and my soul knew greatly. My bones were not hid from thee, when I was made in secret. I was variegated in the lower parts of the earth.read more.
Thine eyes saw my substance unformed; and upon thy book all of them shall be written; the days they were formed, and not one in them.
For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:
And these the commands and the laws and the judgments that Jehovah you God commanded to teach you to do in the land. which ye are passing over there to possess it: So that thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God, to watch all his laws and his commands which I am commanding thee, thou and thy son and thy son's son all the days of thy life; and so that thy days shall be prolonged.
And if thou wilt go in my way to watch my law and my commands, as David thy father went, I prolonged thy days. And Solomon will awake; and behold, a dream. And he will go to Jerusalem and stand before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and bring up burnt-offerings, and he will do peace, and make a drinking to all his servants.
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Long life » Examples of vigorous » Feebleness in
Also from height they shall be afraid, and being dismayed in the way, and the almond tree shall be despised, and the locust shall become a burden, and the caperberry shall fail: for man shall go to his eternal house, and they mourning, went about in the street:
In the day those watching the house shall tremble, and the strong men bent themselves, and the grinders ceased for they were few, and they looking through the lattice were darkened,
Thou wilt not cast me off to the time of old age; as my strength fails thou wilt not forsake me.
By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons; and worshipped, upon the extremity of his rod.
And king David was old, going in days; and they will cover him with garments, and he will not be warm.
Long life » Examples of vigorous » Gray hairs, an indication of
Also from height they shall be afraid, and being dismayed in the way, and the almond tree shall be despised, and the locust shall become a burden, and the caperberry shall fail: for man shall go to his eternal house, and they mourning, went about in the street:
Strangers consumed his strength, and he knew not: also grayness of hair was sprinkled upon him, and he knew not
And now, behold, the king going before you: and I grew old and I was gray-headed; and my sons, behold them with you: and I went before you from my youth even to this day.
Long life » Examples of vigorous » Dimness of vision, in
And it shall be as Isaak grew old, and his eyes shall be weak for seeing, and he will call Esau his son the great, and he will say to him, My son: and he will say to him, Behold me.
And the eyes of Israel were heavy from old age; he will not be able to see; and he will draw them near to him, and he will kiss them, and embrace them.
And it will be in that day, and Eli lay down in his place, and his eyes began to be weak; he will not be able to see.
And Eli the son of ninety and eight years; and his eyes standing, and he will not be able to see.
In the day those watching the house shall tremble, and the strong men bent themselves, and the grinders ceased for they were few, and they looking through the lattice were darkened,
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Devoid of pleasure
And remember him creating thee in the days of thy youth, till even when the days of evil shall not come, and the years draw near in which thou shalt say, Not to me delight in them;
Long life » Examples of vigorous » moses
And Moses the son of a hundred and twenty years in his dying: his eye was not weak, and the freshness fled not
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Of the righteous, honourable
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » General references to
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in tranquillity; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Long life » Examples of vigorous » Caleb
Yet I this day strong as in the day Moses sent me; as my strength then and so my strength now, for war, to go out and to come in.
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Rules of conduct for
The aged men to be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in the faith, in love, in patience. The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good;
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Divine presence in
find even to old age I am he; and even to grayness I will bear; I made and I will lift up, and I will bear, and I will deliver.
Long life » Old age ps 71; ec 12 » Prayer concerning
Thou wilt not cast me off to the time of old age; as my strength fails thou wilt not forsake me.
Long life » Examples of vigorous » Anna
And Anna was a prophetess, daughter of flannel, of the tribe of Aser : she advanced in many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity;
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