Bible Verses About Using Your Time Wisely
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for using your time wisely, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,231 votes, led by Colossians 4:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Using Your Time Wisely
Colossians 4:5259 votes
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Ephesians 5:16235 votes
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Psalms 90:12213 votes
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8213 votes
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
James 4:14157 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.
John 17:4143 votes
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Ephesians 5:15101 votes
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Romans 13:1199 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.
Romans 12:1-2175 votes
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.
Psalms 31:1558 votes
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Proverbs 31:17-1853 votes
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
2 Corinthians 6:249 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.)
James 4:13-1545 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:
Psalms 127:244 votes
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.
Luke 14:1-3543 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 7:2943 votes
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
Zephaniah 1:1439 votes
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.
Mark 16:17-1835 votes
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Proverbs 6:6-1133 votes
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Matthew 18:34-3533 votes
And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-1630 votes
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Micah 6:828 votes
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Revelation 13:16-1826 votes
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Isaiah 1:1-3125 votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Revelation 13:1522 votes
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
What does the Bible say about using your time wisely?
Readers most often cite Colossians 4:5 on the subject of using your time wisely. Across 2,231 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 5:16, Psalms 90:12, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.