Keys to Long-Life

Appendix 2: Long-Life Scriptures.

Genesis 6:3: "The LORD said, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for he also is flesh: yet his days shall be 120years." 

Exodus 15:2: “The LORD is MY STRENGTH and song,and He has become my salvation.” 

Exodus 20:12: “Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.” 

Exodus 23:25,26: "You shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you, .... and the (full) number of your days I will fulfil." 

Deuteronomy 5:16: “Honour your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you (Exodus 20:12)that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.”

Deuteronomy 11:18-21: “Therefore you shall lay up these words 
of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of heaven on earth.”

Deuteronomy 25:15: “You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.”

Deuteronomy 30:19,20: “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing 
and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the LORD your God, 
that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, 
for He is your life and the length of your days.”

1Kings 3:14: "If you walk in My ways, and keep My commandments ... then I will lengthen your days."

Job 5:26: "You will come to your grave in a full age, as a shock of corn comes in his (proper) season." 

Psalm 21:4: “He asked LIFE from You, and You gave it to him— LENGTH OF DAYS forever and ever.”

Psalm 27:1: “The Lord is my light and my salvation. The Lord is 
the STRENGTH OF MY LIFE; of whom shall I be afraid?” 

Psalm 34:12,13: “Who is the man who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.”

Psalm 55:23: "bloody and deceitful men will not live out half their days; but I will trust in You (for a long life)."

Psalm 84:11,12: “For the LORD God is a sun (radiating health to us) and a shield (from sickness); the LORD will give grace and glory. No good thing (including long-life) will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!”

Psalm 91:14-16: "Because he has set his love on Me, I will deliver him: I will set him on high, for he has known My name. He will call on me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; 

I will deliver him, and honour him. WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY HIM, and show him My salvation." "I give them life, long and full, and show them how I can save" (Jerusalem Bible). 

Psalm 103:1-5: “Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” 

Psalm 118:17: "I shall not die (young), but (I shall) live (long), 
and declare the works of the LORD."

Proverbs 3:1,2: "My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commands, for length of days and long life, and peace, shall they add to you." 

Proverbs 3:13-18: “Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding; for her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, and her gain than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand, riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who retain her.”

Proverbs 4:10: "My son, receive My sayings; and the years of your life shall be many."

Proverbs 4:20-23: “My son, attend to my WORDS; incline your ear to my SAYINGS. Let them (the words of God) not depart from your eyes; 
keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are LIFE to those that find them, and HEALTH to all their flesh. Keep(protect) your heart with all diligence (from bad attitudes and wrong beliefs with the Word of God), for out of it spring the issues (forces) of (your) LIFE.” 

Proverbs 9:10,11: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy is understanding. For by me (wisdom) your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life increased." 

Proverbs 10:27: "The fear of the LORD prolongs days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened."

Proverbs 11:19: “As RIGHTEOUSNESS tends to LIFE; so he who pursues EVIL to his own DEATH.” 

Proverbs 12:28: “In the way of righteousness is life; and... no death.”

Proverbs 13:3: “He who keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.”

Proverbs 13:14: “The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares (traps) of death.”

Proverbs 14:30: “A sound heart is the life of the flesh; 
but envy (and hatred) causes rottenness of the bones.”

Proverbs 15:4: “A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness in it - a breach in the spirit.”

Proverbs 17:22: “A merry heart (the joy of the Lord) does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.”

Proverbs 18:21: “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it shall eat its fruit.”

Proverbs 22:4: “By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, 
and honour, and life.”

Proverbs 23:7: “For as a man thinks in his heart, so he is.” 

Proverbs 28:16: “A tyrannical ruler lacks judgement, but he who hates ill-gotten gain will enjoy a long life.” 

Ecclesiastes 7:17: "Be not overly (1) wicked, nor (2) foolish why should you die before your (proper) time (full age)?"

Isaiah 1:19: “If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land (including a long life).”

Joel 2:25: “I will RESTORE to you the YEARS the locust has eaten.” 

Joel 3:10: “Let the weak say: “I AM STRONG (in the strength of God)” 

Matthew 6:33: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things (of this life, including days)will be added unto you (length of life added to us).”

Mark 11:24: “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask (such as long-life), when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” 

John 10:10: "The thief comes not, but to steal, kill, and destroy: 
I am come that they might have LIFE, and that more abundantly." 

Romans 8:2: “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hasmade me free from the law of sin and death.”

Romans 8:11: "If the Spirit of Him (the Father) Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He (God) who raised up Christ from the dead, shall also give life to your mortal bodies by His Spirit."

Romans 8:32: “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all (to die on the Cross), how shall He not with Him, also FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS?”

Romans 10:12,13: “The same Lord over all is RICH (gives freely) 
TO ALL who call upon Him (who ask Him for life). 
For: "ALL who call on the Name of the Lord (Jesus), 
shall be saved (all who ask in faith shall receive His life).”

1Corinthians 15:57: "Thanks be to God, Who gives us (now) the victory (over death) through our Lord Jesus Christ."

2Corinthians 1:20: “ALL the promises of God in Christ (including 
long-life) are ‘Yes’ and in Him ‘Amen’, to the glory (manifestation) 
of God through us (through our faith).”

Galatians 3:13,14: “Christ has REDEEMED us from the curse of the law (early death), having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” 

Psalm 107:1,2: “Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! 
For His mercy endures forever. 
Let the REDEEMED of the LORD SAY so 

(say: “I am redeemed from the curse”),
Whom He has REDEEMED from the hand of the enemy.”

Ephesians 1:3: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING 
in the heavenly places in Christ” 

Ephesians 6:2,3: "Honour your father and mother 
(the first commandment with promise): 
that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth" 
(from Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16). 


1Timothy 6:12,13: “Fight the good fight of (the) faith, 
(1) lay hold on eternal life, to which you are also called, 
and (2) have confessed a good confession before many witnesses.”

2Timothy 1:7: “God has not given you a spirit of fear, 
but of power and of love and of a SOUND MIND.” 

2Timothy 4;6-8: “The time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 
Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, 
which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, 
and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.”

1Peter 3:9,10: "You are called, to inherit a blessing: 
For he who desires life, and loves to see many good days, 
let him refrain his tongue from evil" (from Psalm 34:12-16).

2Peter 1:3: “His divine power has given to us ALL THINGS 
that pertain to LIFE and godliness.”

Hebrews 8:6: “He is also the Mediator of a better Covenant, 
which was established on better promises.” 

3John 2: “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things 
and be in health, just as your soul prospers.”

Revelation 12:11: “They overcame him (satan) by the BLOOD 
of the Lamb and by the WORD of their TESTIMONY.”

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