19 Bible Verses about Time Passing

Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

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

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.

When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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

I am gone like the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.

O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah. Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity.

But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

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 the place thereof shall know it no more.

For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven:

And it was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the [evening] oblation, but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with psychics, and with sorcery. He wrought much evil in the sight of LORD to provoke him to anger.

And if ye call on a Father, him who judges impartially according to each man's work, live the time of your sojourn in fear.

And considerable time having past, and the voyage now being dangerous, also because the Fast was now past, Paul urged,

The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.