Bible verses about Numbering Our Days
Verses about the brevity of life and making the most of the time we are given.
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
Psalms 90:12“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
Psalms 39:4You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Psalms 39:5As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
Psalms 103:15when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
Psalms 103:16Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Psalms 144:4“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Job 14:1Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Job 14:2You 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.
James 4:14For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
1 Peter 1:24but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
1 Peter 1:25A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
Isaiah 40:6The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
Isaiah 40:7The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
Isaiah 40:8He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
Psalms 78:39My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
Psalms 31:15Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Psalms 139:16Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
Ephesians 5:15redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:16Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
Job 7:7