Job 14:5
New Living Translation
5 You have decided the length of our lives.
You know how many months we will live,
and we are not given a minute longer.
Psalm 39:4
New Living Translation
4 “Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be.
Remind me that my days are numbered—
how fleeting my life is.
Acts 17:26
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26 From one man[a] he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries.
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- 17:26 Greek From one; other manuscripts read From one blood.
Hebrews 9:27
New Living Translation
27 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment,
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Job 12:10
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10 For the life of every living thing is in his hand,
and the breath of every human being.
Psalm 104:29
New Living Translation
29 But if you turn away from them, they panic.
When you take away their breath,
they die and turn again to dust.
Job 21:21
New Living Translation
21 For they will not care what happens to their family
after they are dead.
Luke 12:20
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20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’
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Daniel 5:26
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26 This is what these words mean:
Mene means ‘numbered’—God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.
Job 23:13-14
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13 But once he has made his decision, who can change his mind?
Whatever he wants to do, he does.
14 So he will do to me whatever he has planned.
He controls my destiny.
Psalm 104:9
New Living Translation
9 Then you set a firm boundary for the seas,
so they would never again cover the earth.
Daniel 5:30
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30 That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian[a] king, was killed.[b]
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Daniel 4:35
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35 All the people of the earth
are nothing compared to him.
He does as he pleases
among the angels of heaven
and among the people of the earth.
No one can stop him or say to him,
‘What do you mean by doing these things?’
Job 14:14
New Living Translation
14 Can the dead live again?
If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle,
and I would eagerly await the release of death.
Job 7:1
New Living Translation
7 “Is not all human life a struggle?
Our lives are like that of a hired hand,
Revelation 3:7
New Living Translation
The Message to the Church in Philadelphia
7 “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia.
This is the message from the one who is holy and true,
the one who has the key of David.
What he opens, no one can close;
and what he closes, no one can open:[a]
Revelation 1:18
New Living Translation
18 I am the living one. I died, but look—I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.[a]
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- 1:18 Greek and Hades.
Daniel 11:36
New Living Translation
36 “The king will do as he pleases, exalting himself and claiming to be greater than every god, even blaspheming the God of gods. He will succeed, but only until the time of wrath is completed. For what has been determined will surely take place.
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Daniel 9:24
New Living Translation
24 “A period of seventy sets of seven[a] has been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish their rebellion, to put an end to their sin, to atone for their guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.[b]
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