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102 Bible verses about Longevity
Longevity is all about survival, persistence, endurance, lasting a long time, and simply being vital and alive. Think about it, from the very beginning, God didn't want us to die; He wanted us to live forever here on Earth.
When you read those first chapters of Genesis, it's clear that disobedience and sin are what brought death into the world. But there's also this promise of a long life woven throughout the Bible.
Look at the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:1212: "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you." Right there, God connects honoring your parents with living a longer life. Pretty powerful stuff.
Wise King Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, also gives us some food for thought about living a long time. He basically says, don't do a lot of bad stuff, don't be foolish, why die before your time? The further you are from evil, the longer you'll live.
And I think there's also this unspoken idea that if you take care of your body – the temple of God – He'll take care of you. We see in the Bible that Jesus welcomed some believers directly into heaven, which makes me wonder if maybe a lack of care for their health led them there sooner than they might have otherwise gone.
It all comes down to this: we need to follow the instructions God gives us in His guidebook for life. Honor your parents, take care of your body, stay away from foolishness and evil, and ask God for wisdom and understanding. If you do these things, you won't die before your time. It’s that simple.
Your mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
The Lord knows the ways of the upright; and their inheritance shall be forever.They shall not be ashamed in an evil time; and in days of famine they shall be satisfied.
according to all the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in it, that He may give you rest; and that it may be well with you, and you may prolong your days on the land which you shall inherit.
A Song of Degrees. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord; who walk in His ways.You shall eat the labors of your hands. Blessed are you, and it shall be well with you.
Neither shall there be there anymore a child that dies untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time; for the youth shall be a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed;
You have made known to me the ways of life; You will fill me with joy with Your countenance: at Your right hand there are delights forever.
Your eyes saw my unwrought substance, and all men shall be written in Your book; they shall be formed by day, though there should for a time be no one among them.
My son, forget not my laws, but let your heart keep my words:for length of days, and years of life, and peace, shall they add to you.
And these were the years of the days of the life of Abraham, as many as he lived, one hundred and seventy-five years.Then Abraham breathed his last, and died in a good old age, an old man and full of days, and was added to his people.
For he has hoped in Me, and I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he has known My name.He shall call upon Me, and I will hearken to him; I am with him in affliction; and I will deliver him, and glorify him.
The fear of the Lord adds length of days, but the years of the ungodly shall be shortened.
And you shall come to the grave like ripe grain reaped in its season, or as a sheaf of grain collected in its season.
even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I have declared Your mighty arm to all the generation that is to come;
But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction; bloody and crafty men shall not live out half their days; but I will hope in You, O Lord.
For "He that desires to love life and see good days, let him stop his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile.
A meek-spirited man is a healer of the heart, but passion is a corruption to the bones.
For he has hoped in Me, and I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he has known My name.
Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.
Be not wise in your own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil.Then shall there be health to your body, and good keeping to your bones.
that your days may be long, and the days of your children, upon the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Then shall they be increased in a fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare
The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell.
(6:4) And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men forever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be one hundred and twenty years.
He chose David also His servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep.He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob His servant, and Israel His inheritance.So he tended them in the innocence of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
I am He; and until you have grown old, I am He; I bear you, I have made, and I will relieve, I will take up and save you.
For my outgoings are the outgoings of life, and in them is prepared favor from the Lord.But they that sin against me act wickedly against their own souls, and they that hate me love death.
He helped them out of the way of their iniquity; for they were brought low because of their iniquities.Their soul abhorred all food; and they drew near to the gates of death.
As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more.
and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain from which the water has not failed.
Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your intelligent service.And do not fashion yourselves after this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.
For the end, A Psalm of instruction, for the sons of Korah. As the deer earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for You, O God.My soul has thirsted for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?
By faith Enoch was translated so as not to see death, "and he was not found, because God translated him"; for before his translation he had obtained witness that he was pleasing to God.
For bodily exercise is profitable a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life and of the coming life.
Alleluia. Blessed is the man that fears the Lord; he will delight greatly in His commandments.His seed shall be mighty in the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.Glory and riches shall be in his house; and his righteousness endures forevermore.
Finally, brothers, as many things as are true, as many as are honorable, as many as are just, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely--if there is any virtue and if there is any praise--meditate on these things.
In the ways of righteousness is life, but the ways of those that remember injuries lead to death.
Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God:who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things in them; who keeps truth forever;
I call both heaven and earth to witness this day against you, I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: choose life, that you and your seed may live;to love the Lord your God, to hearken to His voice, and cleave to Him; for this is your life, and the length of your days, that you should dwell upon the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.
And while we do good, let us not lose heart, for in due season we shall reap if we do not become weary.
And who knows how to number his days because of the fear of Your wrath? So manifest Your right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.
Blessed be the Lord God, blessed be the Lord daily; and the God of our salvation shall prosper us. Pause.
Cast your cares upon the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.
And Job lived after his affliction one hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, to the fourth generation.And Job died, an old man and full of days: (42:17A) and it is written that he will rise again with those whom the Lord raises up. (42:17B) This man is described in the Syriac book as living in the land of Uz, on the borders of Edom and Arabia: and his name before was Jobab; (42:17C) and having taken an Arabian wife, he begot a son whose name was Ennon. And he himself was the son of his father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and of his mother Bosorrha, so that he was the fifth from Abraham. (42:17D) And these were the kings who reigned in Edom, which country he also ruled over: first, Balak, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dennaba: but after Balak, Jobab, who is called Job, and after him Asom, who was governor out of the country of Teman: and after him Adad, the son of Barad, who destroyed Midian in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. (42:17E) And his friends who came to him were Eliphaz, of the children of Esau, king of the Thaemanites, Bildad sovereign of the Sauchaeans, and Zophar king of the Minaeans.
May the Lord add blessings to you and to your children.Blessed are you of the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.
For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him.For "whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved."
Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and they that rule it shall eat the fruits thereof.
And remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of evil come, and the years overtake you in which you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.
He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless;but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
For length of days and years of life are in her right hand, and in her left hand are wealth and glory. (3:16A) Out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue.
that there should be given to them that mourn in Zion glory instead of ashes, the oil of joy to the mourners, the garment of glory for the spirit of heaviness; and they shall be called generations of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for glory.
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.In a place of green grass, there He has made me dwell; He has nourished me by the water of rest.He has restored my soul; He has guided me into the paths of righteousness, for His name's sake.
And he died in a good old age, full of days, in wealth, and glory; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.
They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means plant, and others eat; for as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of My people, they shall long enjoy the fruits of their labors.
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.A time to give birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted;
For the Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures from generation to generation.
The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the righteous; it enriches him, and grief of heart shall not be added to it.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, self-control--against such things there is no law.
Who is the man that fears the Lord? He shall instruct him in the way which he has chosen.
The hand of chosen men shall easily obtain rule, but the deceitful shall be for a prey.
Fear not; for I am with you; wander not; for I am your God, who has strengthened you; and I have helped you, and have established you with My righteous right hand.
having been persuaded of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus;
I will give You thanks; for You are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are Your works; and my soul knows it well.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
A Psalm of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name.Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His praises;who forgives all your transgressions, who heals all your diseases;who redeems your life from corruption; who crowns you with mercy and compassion;who satisfies your desire with good things; so that your youth shall be renewed like that of the eagle.
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to Him; He is the health of my countenance, and my God.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed in us.
Alleluia. Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.Blessed are they that search out His testimonies; they will diligently seek Him with the whole heart.
They shall be afraid, but I will trust in You.In God (I will praise His word); all the day long have I hoped in God; I will not fear; what shall man do to me?
The Lord is the strength of them that fear Him; and His covenant is to manifest truth to them.
For the Lord loves mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory; the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.
Honor your father and your mother, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the good land, which the Lord your God gives to you.
What man is there that desires life, loving to see good days?Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Hear, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life shall be increased, that the resources of your life may be many.
He shall call upon Me, and I will hearken to him; I am with him in affliction; and I will deliver him, and glorify him.I will satisfy him with length of days, and show him My salvation.
"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."