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30 Bible Verses About Time

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)

    “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:”

  2. Psalm 90:12 (NIV)

    “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”

  3. Ephesians 5:16 (NIV)

    “making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.”

  4. James 4:14 (NIV)

    “Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”

  5. Proverbs 16:9 (NIV)

    “In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.”

  6. Galatians 6:9 (NIV)

    “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

  7. Ecclesiastes 8:6 (NIV)

    “For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a person may be weighed down by misery.”

  8. Romans 13:11 (NIV)

    “And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.”

  9. 2 Corinthians 6:2 (NIV)

    “For he says, ‘In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.’ I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.”

  10. Psalm 31:15 (NIV)

    “My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.”

  11. Luke 12:56 (NIV)

    “Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?”

  12. Daniel 2:21 (NIV)

    “He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.”

  13. 1 Peter 1:17 (NIV)

    “Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear.”

  14. Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)

    “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”

  15. Matthew 6:34 (NIV)

    “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

  16. Psalm 102:27 (NIV)

    “But you remain the same, and your years will never end.”

  17. Romans 5:6 (NIV)

    “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.”

  18. Ecclesiastes 9:11 (NIV)

    “I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.”

  19. Galatians 4:4 (NIV)

    “But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,”

  20. 2 Timothy 4:2 (NIV)

    “Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.”

  21. Habakkuk 2:3 (NIV)

    “For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.”

  22. Ecclesiastes 3:6 (NIV)

    “a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,”

  23. Hebrews 9:27 (NIV)

    “Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,”

  24. Romans 8:28 (NIV)

    “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

  25. Psalm 37:7 (NIV)

    “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.”

  26. 1 Peter 5:6 (NIV)

    “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.”

  27. Proverbs 20:24 (NIV)

    “A person’s steps are directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand their own way?”

  28. Romans 12:2 (NIV)

    “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

  29. Ecclesiastes 7:17 (NIV)

    “Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool— why die before your time?”

  30. 2 Peter 3:8 (NIV)

    “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”