Bible Verses About Timekeeping
This collection includes 50 passages about Timekeeping. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Scripture Passages
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise manβs heart discerneth both time and judgment.
Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the kingβs house;
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land.
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
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