Bible Verses About The brevity of life
Bible verses about The brevity of life
Discover what the Bible says about the brevity of life.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
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Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead who sought the young child's life.
Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?
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Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth to life, and few there are that find it.
And he said to him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Then said Jesus to them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath-days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy [it]?
For whoever will save his life, shall lose it: but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
He that believeth on the Son, hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
But whoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
And shall come forth; they that have done good to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Labor not for the food which perisheth, but for that food which endureth to everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me, shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me, shall never thirst.
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one who seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man shall eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Then Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Whoever eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
It is the spirit that reviveth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak to you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life.
Then Jesus spoke again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life, and that they may have [it] more abundantly.
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatever I speak therefore, even as the Father said to me, so I speak.
Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say to thee, The cock will not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.
Jesus saith to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me.
And this is life eternal, that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
But these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life through his name.
For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they who receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Therefore, as by the offense of one, [judgment came] upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one [the free gift came] upon all men to justification of life.
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
But now being made free from sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.
For the wages of sin [is] death: but the gift of God [is] eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
And if Christ [is] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.
For if the rejection of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
The life is more than food, and the body [is more] than raiment.
Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.