Isaiah 65:20
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20 No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days
or an old person who does not live out a lifetime,
for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth,
and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.(A)
Job 5:26
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26 You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,
as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.(A)
Ecclesiastes 8:12-13
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12 Though sinners do evil a hundred times and prolong their lives, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they stand in fear before him,(A) 13 but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.(B)
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Deuteronomy 4:40
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40 Keep his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”(A)
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Psalm 34:12
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12 Which of you desires life
and covets many days to enjoy good?(A)
Romans 2:5-9
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5 But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.(A) 6 He will repay according to each one’s deeds:(B) 7 to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life, 8 while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury.(C) 9 There will be affliction and distress for everyone who does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek,(D)
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Isaiah 3:11
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11 Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are,
for what their hands have done shall be done to them.(A)
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