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.
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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.
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Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Genesis 35:18
As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
Job 5:7
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Psalms 55:4
My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
Ecclesiastes 2:23
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
Isaiah 53:11
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
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Genesis 5:8
All of the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
Genesis 5:11
All of the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
Genesis 5:14
and all of the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
Genesis 5:17
All of the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety-five years, then he died.
Genesis 5:18
Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, then became the father of Enoch.
Genesis 5:19
Jared lived after he became the father of Enoch eight hundred years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:21
Enoch lived sixty-five years, then became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:23
All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years.
Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
Genesis 5:25
Methuselah lived one hundred eighty-seven years, then became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 5:26
Methuselah lived after he became the father of Lamech seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:28
Lamech lived one hundred eighty-two years, then became the father of a son.
Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
Genesis 5:30
Lamech lived after he became the father of Noah five hundred ninety-five years, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
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Genesis 5:31
All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
Deuteronomy 30:20
to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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Genesis 6:3
Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Job 7:7
Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
Job 10:20
Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
Job 13:25
Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
Job 13:28
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 17:1
“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.
Psalms 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
Psalms 103:14
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
Psalms 119:84
How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
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Genesis 11:11
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12
Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 11:13
Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:14
Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.
Genesis 11:15
Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:16
Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
Genesis 11:17
Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:18
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
Genesis 11:19
Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:20
Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
Genesis 11:21
Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:22
Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
Genesis 11:23
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:24
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
Genesis 11:25
Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
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Genesis 37:35
All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.
Genesis 42:38
He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”
Genesis 44:29
If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.’
Genesis 44:31
it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
1 Kings 2:6
Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
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Genesis 41:46
Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Deuteronomy 29:5
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
Acts 7:30
“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
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Genesis 48:10
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
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Genesis 48:19
His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”
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Exodus 6:16
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.
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Leviticus 27:7
If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
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Numbers 14:30
surely you shall not come into the land concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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Numbers 31:8
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
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Genesis 11:32
The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 25:8
Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Genesis 35:28
The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
Genesis 35:29
Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
Genesis 47:8
Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”
Joshua 24:29
After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
1 Chronicles 29:27
The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 29:28
He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 24:15
But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
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1 Samuel 2:22
Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
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1 Kings 14:4
Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
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2 Chronicles 16:10
Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
2 Chronicles 16:11
Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2 Chronicles 16:13
Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign.
2 Chronicles 16:14
They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.
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1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
Job 9:26
They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
Psalms 89:45
You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms 102:11
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
Psalms 109:23
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
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Job 14:3
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Job 15:16
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
Psalms 49:14
They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
Psalms 49:19
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
Psalms 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
Psalms 73:18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Isaiah 64:4
For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
Revelation 14:13
I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”
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2 Samuel 11:25
Then David said to the messenger, “Tell Joab, ‘Don’t let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.’ Encourage him.”
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Job 14:11
As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
Job 14:12
so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.
Ecclesiastes 9:1
For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
Acts 13:36
For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
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Job 15:35
They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
Psalms 55:11
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
Psalms 105:44
He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Haggai 1:6
You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’
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Job 17:14
if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
Job 17:15
where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?
Job 17:16
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
Isaiah 27:4
Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
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Job 24:24
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
John 8:21
Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
John 8:24
I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
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Job 36:14
They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
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Job 36:21
Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
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Psalms 38:1
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
Psalms 38:2
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
Psalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 38:4
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
Psalms 38:5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psalms 38:6
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Psalms 38:7
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms 38:8
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
1 Corinthians 5:5
you are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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Psalms 90:13
Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
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Psalms 90:14
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
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Psalms 103:5
who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
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2 Kings 1:2
Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”
2 Kings 1:6
They said to him, “A man came up to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you, and tell him, “Yahweh says, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’ ” ’ ”
2 Kings 5:27
Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your offspring forever.” He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.
2 Chronicles 24:24
For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
2 Chronicles 24:25
When they had departed from him (for they left him seriously wounded), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.
Proverbs 1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.
Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,
Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
Ecclesiastes 5:17
All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
Acts 12:23
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
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Job 30:2
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
Psalms 71:6
I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
Psalms 71:9
Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.
Psalms 71:18
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
Proverbs 16:31
Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.
Isaiah 46:4
Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
Hosea 7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.
Zechariah 8:4
Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand because of their old age.
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Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
Job 14:14
If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
Psalms 89:48
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
1 Peter 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
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Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
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Isaiah 30:7
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
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Isaiah 41:29
Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.
Zechariah 10:2
For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
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2 Chronicles 20:27
Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat in front of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
Jeremiah 8:18
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Lamentations 1:12
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
John 16:20
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
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Jeremiah 28:3
Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.
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1 Kings 3:11
God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice,
Ezekiel 20:18
I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
Ephesians 6:3
“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”
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Daniel 9:1
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—
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Romans 5:15
But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
Romans 5:17
For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
Hebrews 13:13
Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
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Hebrews 7:23
Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death.
Hebrews 7:24
But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.
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Psalms 39:7
Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
Romans 13:11
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
1 Corinthians 7:29
But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
Hebrews 13:14
For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
2 Peter 3:2
that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior,
2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
2 Peter 3:8
But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
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Hebrews 12:6
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
Revelation 3:19
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
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