Living 70 Years

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.

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.

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. — read the full passage →

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

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.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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.

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.

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.

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, — read the full passage →

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

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.

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; — read the full passage →

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

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.

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

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.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.

And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) — read the full passage →

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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. — read the full passage →

So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.

And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; — read the full passage →

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; — read the full passage →

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

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.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: — read the full passage →

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. — read the full passage →

And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, — read the full passage →

So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

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.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, — read the full passage →

And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: — read the full passage →

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;