Bible Verses About Time
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for time, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 12,336 votes, led by Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Time
Ecclesiastes 3:1-81,040 votes
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Psalms 90:12673 votes
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
2 Peter 3:8653 votes
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.
Ephesians 5:16509 votes
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Proverbs 16:9478 votes
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
James 4:13-15397 votes
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:
James 4:14367 votes
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.
Jeremiah 29:11307 votes
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Psalms 31:15260 votes
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Colossians 4:5255 votes
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Proverbs 16:3246 votes
Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.
2 Corinthians 6:2238 votes
(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.)
Ecclesiastes 3:1235 votes
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ephesians 1:10216 votes
That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
Mark 13:32189 votes
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Ecclesiastes 3:11180 votes
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
John 9:4156 votes
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Psalms 31:14-15152 votes
But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.
Ephesians 5:15-17152 votes
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Romans 13:11146 votes
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.
Galatians 4:4138 votes
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Psalms 90:2127 votes
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3127 votes
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
Proverbs 6:6-8124 votes
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
John 1:1-51122 votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
What does the Bible say about time?
Readers most often cite Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 on the subject of time. Across 12,336 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 90:12, 2 Peter 3:8, Ephesians 5:16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.