Bible Verses About Lifespan
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for lifespan, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,049 votes, led by Psalms 90:10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Lifespan
Psalms 90:10201 votes
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Genesis 6:3166 votes
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
James 4:1495 votes
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Genesis 6:1-2254 votes
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Genesis 5:449 votes
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Psalms 91:1644 votes
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
John 14:638 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 3:1636 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Genesis 2:731 votes
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.
Proverbs 18:2128 votes
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Romans 6:2328 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Jeremiah 1:525 votes
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Jeremiah 29:1125 votes
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
John 10:1022 votes
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
John 6:3520 votes
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John 15:1320 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Psalms 23:1-618 votes
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Philippians 4:1313 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Hebrews 4:1213 votes
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
John 8:1212 votes
Then spake Jesus again unto 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.
Galatians 2:2012 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Hebrews 11:412 votes
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
2 Peter 3:1-1812 votes
This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
1 John 1:912 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Genesis 1:111 votes
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
What does the Bible say about lifespan?
Readers most often cite Psalms 90:10 on the subject of lifespan. Across 1,049 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 6:3, James 4:14, Genesis 6:1-22. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.