100 Bible Verses About Life

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

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.

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

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.

I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

Thou wilt prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.

And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.

And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

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:

As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

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.

I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

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.

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:

While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.