100 Bible Verses about Longevity

Psalm 91:16 ESV / 1,520 helpful votes

With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

Proverbs 3:16 ESV / 1,279 helpful votes

Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 1,273 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 1,253 helpful votes

The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Proverbs 9:11 ESV / 1,228 helpful votes

For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

Proverbs 3:2 ESV / 1,161 helpful votes

For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Psalm 21:4 ESV / 1,110 helpful votes

He asked life of you; you gave it to him, length of days forever and ever.

Genesis 6:3 ESV / 1,092 helpful votes

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”

Proverbs 10:27 ESV / 1,091 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 1,057 helpful votes

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

Isaiah 65:20 ESV / 1,003 helpful votes

No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Job 5:26 ESV / 879 helpful votes

You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

1 Kings 3:14 ESV / 820 helpful votes

And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

Proverbs 3:1 ESV / 816 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Psalm 34:11-13 ESV / 810 helpful votes

Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 802 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

Deuteronomy 34:7 ESV / 789 helpful votes

Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

John 3:16 ESV / 743 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 736 helpful votes

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

1 Samuel 4:15 ESV / 698 helpful votes

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set so that he could not see.

Proverbs 16:31 ESV / 680 helpful votes

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Philemon 1:9 ESV / 605 helpful votes

Yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—

Genesis 11:32 ESV / 601 helpful votes

The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.

Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 588 helpful votes

You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.

Joshua 24:29 ESV / 586 helpful votes

After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.

Luke 2:36 ESV / 581 helpful votes

And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin,

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 581 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

John 10:10 ESV / 577 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Genesis 5:31 ESV / 576 helpful votes

Thus all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.

Genesis 5:27 ESV / 569 helpful votes

Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.

John 8:12 ESV / 562 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Genesis 25:7 ESV / 562 helpful votes

These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years.

Genesis 5:17 ESV / 560 helpful votes

Thus all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.

Genesis 5:20 ESV / 559 helpful votes

Thus all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.

Genesis 5:11 ESV / 559 helpful votes

Thus all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.

Genesis 9:29 ESV / 558 helpful votes

All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.

Genesis 5:14 ESV / 558 helpful votes

Thus all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died.

Genesis 5:8 ESV / 558 helpful votes

Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.

Job 42:16 ESV / 555 helpful votes

And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.

Genesis 35:28 ESV / 552 helpful votes

Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.

Genesis 50:26 ESV / 551 helpful votes

So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Numbers 33:39 ESV / 547 helpful votes

And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

Genesis 11:11 ESV / 544 helpful votes

And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 540 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Exodus 6:20 ESV / 540 helpful votes

Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father's sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years.

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 539 helpful votes

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 538 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 538 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Genesis 11:21 ESV / 538 helpful votes

And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:5 ESV / 538 helpful votes

Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

Genesis 11:24 ESV / 536 helpful votes

When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 536 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

2 Chronicles 24:15 ESV / 534 helpful votes

But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died. He was 130 years old at his death.

Exodus 23:25-26 ESV / 533 helpful votes

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

Genesis 23:1 ESV / 532 helpful votes

Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Genesis 5:23 ESV / 532 helpful votes

Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years.

Genesis 47:28 ESV / 531 helpful votes

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.

2 Samuel 19:32 ESV / 530 helpful votes

Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.

1 Kings 3:11-14 ESV / 523 helpful votes

And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you. I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days. And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

Luke 2:37 ESV / 522 helpful votes

And then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

Genesis 11:22 ESV / 519 helpful votes

When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor.

Genesis 11:17 ESV / 518 helpful votes

And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:16 ESV / 518 helpful votes

When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.

Genesis 11:15 ESV / 518 helpful votes

And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:14 ESV / 518 helpful votes

When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.

Genesis 11:13 ESV / 518 helpful votes

And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:10 ESV / 518 helpful votes

These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Job 42:17 ESV / 517 helpful votes

And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

Genesis 11:20 ESV / 517 helpful votes

When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 512 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 512 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 489 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 488 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 487 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Deuteronomy 6:1-2 ESV / 486 helpful votes

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.

Genesis 11:19 ESV / 485 helpful votes

And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 478 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Genesis 11:25 ESV / 468 helpful votes

And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:23 ESV / 467 helpful votes

And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:18 ESV / 467 helpful votes

When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 466 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Genesis 11:12 ESV / 458 helpful votes

When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.

Psalm 71:9 ESV / 456 helpful votes

Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Deuteronomy 4:40 ESV / 456 helpful votes

Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Proverbs 20:29 ESV / 450 helpful votes

The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

Proverbs 4:10 ESV / 430 helpful votes

Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 421 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 419 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 415 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 387 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John 14:6 ESV / 384 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 367 helpful votes

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Matthew 24:42 ESV / 365 helpful votes

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

Genesis 5:4 ESV / 365 helpful votes

The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 363 helpful votes

And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

John 15:13 ESV / 345 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 344 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 342 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 341 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Ephesians 6:2-3 ESV / 339 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

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