Topic
Long Life
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With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!
in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and <FI>it is<Fi> well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.
A crown of beauty <FI>are<Fi> grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.
The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.
for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips--not to speak guile;
Length of days <FI>is<Fi> in her right hand, In her left <FI>are<Fi> wealth and honour.
For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.
The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →
For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.
`And ye have served Jehovah your God, and He hath blessed thy bread and thy water, and I have turned aside sickness from thine heart; — read the full passage →
Days of our years, in them <FI>are<Fi> seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet <FI>is<Fi> their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
I do not die, but live, And recount the works of Jah,
`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,
and if thou dost walk in My ways to keep My statutes, and My commands, as David thy father walked, then I have prolonged thy days.'
The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying <FI>it<Fi> to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one.
He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually, — read the full passage →
Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.
and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die--to the age;
`And this <FI>is<Fi> the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, — read the full passage →
Life he hath asked from Thee, Thou hast given to him--length of days, Age-during--and for ever.
`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.
My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, — read the full passage →
For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.
A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →
honour thy father and mother, — read the full passage →
For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life <FI>are<Fi> multiplied to thee.
for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming;
Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
But those expecting Jehovah pass <FI>to<Fi> power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!
For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;
because nothing shall be impossible with God.'
Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.
Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him--I set him on high, Because he hath known My name. — read the full passage →
Only--goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling <FI>is<Fi> in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!
`Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do--that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father; — read the full passage →
And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man--to the age; in their erring they <FI>are<Fi> flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.
Who <FI>is<Fi> the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good? — read the full passage →
Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
And Moses <FI>is<Fi> a son of a hundred and twenty years when he dieth; his eye hath not become dim, nor hath his moisture fled.
and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.
these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'
The end of humility <FI>is<Fi> the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life.
`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.
And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices; — read the full passage →
Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips--ruin to him!
And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;
and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee--all the days.'
All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →
but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.
Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.
My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,
`I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed,
for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, — read the full passage →
`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →
As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,
And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst--at any time;
And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.
`I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed, — read the full passage →
not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit; — read the full passage →
with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;
greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;
Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?
And the lad groweth, and the day cometh that he goeth out unto his father, unto the reapers, — read the full passage →
Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.
and Job dieth, aged and satisfied <FI>with<Fi> days.
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'
and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,
As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;
for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one--Jesus Christ.
And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight, — read the full passage →
A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.
every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,
For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →
For as he hath thought in his soul, so <FI>is<Fi> he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart <FI>is<Fi> not with thee.
And Eli is a son of ninety and eight years, and his eyes have stood, and he hath not been able to see.
be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses. — read the full passage →
This <FI>is<Fi> the day Jehovah hath made, We rejoice and are glad in it.
And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I--I do trust in Thee!
and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;
and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him <FI>is<Fi> the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.
There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be--all are yours,
And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'
There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also <FI>is<Fi> vanity.
so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged.
looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: YLT.