What Does the Bible Say About We Will Not Surpass?

Job 14:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

James 4:14-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Matthew 6:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

Proverbs 27:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 4 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.

Psalm 39:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Job 8:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

12 Bible Verses about We Will Not Surpass

Job 14:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 4:14-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 39:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 8:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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12 Bible Verses about We Will Not Surpass

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Job 14:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

James 4:14-15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 39:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Job 8:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes