Bible Verses About Longevity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for longevity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 66,718 votes, led by Psalms 91:16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Longevity
Psalms 91:161,520 votes
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Proverbs 3:161,280 votes
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Exodus 20:121,274 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Psalms 90:101,255 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.
Proverbs 9:111,228 votes
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Proverbs 3:21,160 votes
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Psalms 21:41,111 votes
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
Genesis 6:31,094 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.
Proverbs 10:271,091 votes
The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
1 Peter 3:101,058 votes
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Isaiah 65:201,003 votes
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Job 5:26879 votes
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
1 Kings 3:14820 votes
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Proverbs 3:1816 votes
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Psalms 34:11-13810 votes
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Proverbs 3:1-2803 votes
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Deuteronomy 34:7789 votes
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
John 3:16743 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.
1 Timothy 4:8736 votes
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
1 Samuel 4:15698 votes
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
Proverbs 16:31680 votes
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Philemon 1:9605 votes
Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Genesis 11:32601 votes
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Deuteronomy 5:33588 votes
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
Joshua 24:29586 votes
And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
What does the Bible say about longevity?
Readers most often cite Psalms 91:16 on the subject of longevity. Across 66,718 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 3:16, Exodus 20:12, Psalms 90:10. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.