Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble (Job 14:1)
You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah (Psalm 39:5).
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace (Psalm 102:3).
Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes (James 4:14).
For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls (1 Peter 1:24).
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring (Proverbs 27:1).
He said, see, I am old; I do not know the day of my death (Genesis 27:2).
For no one can anticipate the time of disaster. Like fish taken in a cruel net, and like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them (Ecclesiastes 9:12).
Making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil (Ephesians 5:16).Since each day may be our last, this should cause us to make the most of the time that we have.
Believers bring the fragrance of life to those who are perishing.
So that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe (Philippians 2:15).
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing (2 Corinthians 2:15).
It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you will get neither.
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