19 Bible Verses about Time Passing
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After all we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are a mere shadow.
He springs up like a flower and fades away. He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure.
With stern reproof you discipline people for their iniquity. Like a moth you consume what is dear to them. Certainly, everyone is like a breath of air.
I fade away like a lengthening shadow. I have been shaken off like a grasshopper.
Remember how short my life span is! Have you created the sons of men for no reason?
Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Every man walks about like a vain illusion. He makes a lot of noise over nothing. He hoards riches and does not know who will receive them.
Things will not go well with the wicked. He will not prolong his days. His days are like a shadow. He does not respect God.
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. Behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. The wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.
For everything there is a season. There is a time for every purpose under the sun.
They went on with their prayers from midday till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them.
He made his own son pass through fire. He burned him as an offering to Molech. He practiced reading the future; gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers. He did much evil in the eyes of Jehovah and provoked him to anger.
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time you spend here in reverence.
Much time had been lost and sailing was now dangerous. Because the fast was over Paul admonished them,
