12 Bible Verses about How Long Does A Persons Life Last

Psalm 90:10 ESV / 6 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.

James 4:14 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.

Ecclesiastes 3:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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 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.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 40:7-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Psalm 144:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 102:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Psalm 39:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!

Job 14:5 ESV / 4 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,

Genesis 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

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