Bible Quotes About Life

“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. of the dust: Heb. dust of the ground”

“And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.”

“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:”

“So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”

“And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:”

“And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

“Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.”

“Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

“And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.”

“But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.”

“That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

“See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.”

“For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.”

“How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?”

“Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? an appointed: or, a warfare”

“My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.”

“What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?”

“(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) nothing: Heb. not”

“Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.”

“They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. swift: or, ships of Ebeh: Heb. ships of desire”

“Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?”

“Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!”

“Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone , that I may take comfort a little,”

“Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;”

“Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.”

“Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?”

“And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.”

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. few: Heb. short of days”

“He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”

“My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. breath: or, spirit is spent”

“All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils; the spirit: that is, the breath which God gave him”

“If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; man: Heb. him”

“All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.”

“He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.”

“All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.”

“O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.”

“LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. how: or, what time I have here”

“When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. his: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away”

“He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.”

“For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.”

“Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?”

“What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.”

“Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.”

“Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. groweth: or, is changed”

“In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.”

“For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. passed: Heb. turned away as a: or, as a meditation”

“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. The days: Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years”

“My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.”

“For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”

“Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.”

“The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.”

“As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.”

“LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!”

“Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.”

“His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.”

“She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.”

“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”

“Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. to: Heb. to morrow day”

“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.”

“Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”

“For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? all: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity”

“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”

“Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?”

“He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.”

“Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. with: or, from the thrum”

“O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.”

“Behold, for peace I had great bitterness : but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. for peace: or, on my peace came great bitterness thou hast in: Heb. thou hast loved my soul from the pit”

“For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.”

“The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.”

“The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.”

“The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:”

“The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.”

“Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.”

“Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.”

“For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.”

“I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;”

“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

“Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.”

“And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”

“And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. vehement: or, silent”

“And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. Doest: or, Art thou greatly angry? I do well: or, I am greatly angry”

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

“For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”

“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

“And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

“And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.”

“Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

“And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”

“Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

“But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.”

“For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

“For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.”

“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”

“And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

“Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.”

“Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.”

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. again: or, from above”

“Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?”

“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”