100 Bible Verses About Time
Bible verses about Time
Time, a precious gift from the Divine, flows through our lives like a river, carrying us onward. Scripture offers profound wisdom on navigating this journey, urging us to be mindful stewards of each moment. Understanding God's perspective on time allows us to prioritize what truly matters: faith, love, and service. It challenges us to rise above fleeting distractions and embrace the eternal significance of our actions. By studying verses about time, we gain clarity, learn to number our days wisely, and align our lives with God's timeless purpose, ultimately enriching our souls and drawing us closer to His everlasting presence.
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1 Samuel 31:6 (KJV)
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
Time in the Bible: Exploring God's Perspective
(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
And the evening and the morning were the third day.
The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
Thou wilt prolong the king’s life: and his years as many generations.
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the Lord.
And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,
And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
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.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Throughout scripture, time emerges as a precious, divinely ordained gift, not to be squandered but stewarded with wisdom and intention. These verses highlight the transient nature of earthly existence, urging us to seek eternal perspectives and invest our fleeting moments in pursuits that honor God. From Ecclesiastes' poignant reflections on seasons to Ephesians' call for redemption of time, we are reminded that every second holds purpose and potential. Let us reflect on how we are spending our days, examining if our actions align with God's will. May these verses on time serve as a constant prompt to live purposefully, love generously, and remain mindful of eternity in all that we do, ensuring that our lives bear fruit that endures far beyond the limitations of time itself.