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Want to know what the Bible says about How Long We Will Live? Here are 81 Bible verses about How Long We Will Live from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Genesis 6:3 NIV
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal ; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
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Psalm 90:10 NIV
Our days may come to seventy years,
    or eighty, if our strength endures;
yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,
    for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
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James 4:14 NIV
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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Job 14:5 NIV
A person’s days are determined;
    you have decreed the number of his months
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.
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Psalm 139:16 NIV
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
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Psalm 90:12 NIV
Teach us to number our days,
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
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Romans 6:23 NIV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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John 10:28 NIV
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
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John 3:16 NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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Exodus 20:12 NIV
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
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Psalm 39:4 NIV
“Show me, Lord, my life’s end
    and the number of my days;
    let me know how fleeting my life is.
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Psalm 90:9 NIV
All our days pass away under your wrath;
    we finish our years with a moan.
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John 10:10 NIV
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
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Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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Proverbs 10:27 NIV
The fear of the Lord adds length to life,
    but the years of the wicked are cut short.
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1 John 3:16 NIV
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
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1 Timothy 4:8 NIV
For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
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Hebrews 9:27 NIV
Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
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1 Thessalonians 4:17 NIV
After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
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Ephesians 6:2-3 NIV
2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”
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