What does the Bible say about living 70 years?
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The Bible teaches that a human life of seventy years is a common measure of earthly life, yet every day is brief and should lead us to depend on God, seek wisdom, and hope in His mercy. Psalm 90:10 acknowledges seventy years, or eighty by strength, while reminding us that even our best years quickly pass. Genesis 6:3 shows God’s sovereign concern with human mortality, though it is not a universal promise of a 120-year lifespan. Because sin brought death, our lasting hope is not in length of days but in Christ, whose atoning sacrifice is sufficient for sinners (1 John 2:2). In Him, God will finally remove death and sorrow (Revelation 21:4).
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- Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are seventy, Or even by reason of strength eighty years; Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, For it passes quickly, and we fly away.
- Genesis 6:3
Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
- 1 John 2:2
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
- Jeremiah 29:10
For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
- 1 Timothy 3:2
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
- Revelation 6:8
And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.
- Revelation 21:4
He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."
- Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
- Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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