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What does the Bible say about using your time wisely?

18 verses about using your time wisely, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

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Bible verses about using your time wisely

Ephesians 5:16 — Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 10 votes
Colossians 4:5 — Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. 10 votes
Psalms 90:12 — So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 8 votes
Ecclesiastes 3:1 — To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 8 votes
John 17:4 — I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 6 votes
James 4:14 — Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 6 votes
Romans 13:11 — And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 4 votes
Ephesians 5:15 — See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 4 votes
Psalms 31:15 — My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 3 votes
Romans 12:1 — I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 3 votes
Psalms 127:2 — It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 2 votes
Proverbs 6:6 — Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 2 votes
Proverbs 31:17 — She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. 2 votes
Zephaniah 1:14 — The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 2 votes
Luke 14:1 — And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2 votes
1 Corinthians 7:29 — But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; 2 votes
2 Corinthians 6:2 — (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 2 votes
James 4:13 — Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 2 votes

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Psalms (3), Proverbs (2), Romans (2), Ephesians (2), James (2), Ecclesiastes (1), Zephaniah (1), Luke (1), John (1), 1 Corinthians (1), 2 Corinthians (1), Colossians (1)

What does the Bible say about using your time wisely?

Bible verses about using your time wisely

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