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Bible Verses about “retirement”

The Bible contains 43 verses about retirement across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Jeremiah 29:11
1296 votes

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.”

Matthew 6:21
466 votes

“for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

Matthew 6:20
441 votes

“but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;”

Matthew 6:19
433 votes

“"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;”

Ecclesiastes 3:1
409 votes

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:”

Ecclesiastes 3:4
401 votes

“a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;”

Ecclesiastes 3:8
375 votes

“a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.”

Ecclesiastes 3:2
307 votes

“a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;”

Ecclesiastes 3:7
303 votes

“a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;”

Ecclesiastes 3:6
292 votes

“a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;”

Ecclesiastes 3:3
289 votes

“a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;”

Ecclesiastes 3:5
287 votes

“a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;”

Luke 14:28
258 votes

“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?”

2 Timothy 4:7
258 votes

“I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.”

Luke 12:33
218 votes

“Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.”

Luke 12:34
187 votes

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

Proverbs 13:22
175 votes

“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.”

1 Timothy 6:18
171 votes

“that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;”

1 Timothy 6:17
160 votes

“Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;”

1 Timothy 6:19
149 votes

“laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.”

Ecclesiastes 3:9
129 votes

“What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?”

Ecclesiastes 3:10
127 votes

“I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.”

Psalms 37:25
123 votes

“I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.”

Philippians 1:6
122 votes

“being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

Luke 12:21
93 votes

“So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."”

Luke 12:20
88 votes

“"But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'”

Luke 12:19
84 votes

“I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'”

Luke 12:18
76 votes

“He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.”

Luke 12:16
69 votes

“He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.”

Luke 12:17
69 votes

“He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'”

Hebrews 6:10
55 votes

“For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.”

Psalms 92:14
53 votes

“They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,”

Psalms 90:17
45 votes

“Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.”

Psalms 92:13
44 votes

“They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.”

Acts 20:24
44 votes

“But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.”

Psalms 92:12
43 votes

“The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.”

Luke 1:23
20 votes

“It happened, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he departed to his house.”

Psalms 90:16
18 votes

“Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.”

Numbers 8:23
11 votes

“Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,”

Numbers 8:24
11 votes

“"This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;”

Numbers 8:25
11 votes

“and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,”

Numbers 8:26
11 votes

“but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties."”

Nehemiah 5:19
2 votes

“Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.”

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