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17 Bible Verses About Life on Earth

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  • Genesis 1:28 gives the man and woman a blessing and a task: fill the earth, subdue it, and rule over every living creature.
  • Psalm 90, headed “A prayer of Moses the man of God,” puts a life at “seventy years, or eighty” and asks God to “teach us to number our days.”
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was written to exiles in Babylon, who were also told to build houses and seek the peace of the city they lived in.
  • In John 17:15 Jesus asks the Father not to take his disciples out of the world but to protect them in it.
  • Revelation 21:1 describes “a new heaven and a new earth,” with God’s dwelling place among his people.

The Bible treats life on earth as a gift and a task from God, short and often hard, and lived by his people as strangers who belong to a better country. Hebrews 11:13 calls them “foreigners and strangers on earth,” Genesis 1:28 gives the task, Genesis 3:19 the hardship after the fall, and Psalm 90:12 and James 4:14 the brevity. John 16:33 promises trouble “in this world,” Philippians 3:20 places a Christian’s citizenship in heaven, and Revelation 21:1 looks to…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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