Bible Verses About Wasting Time
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for wasting time, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,333 votes, led by Ephesians 5:16-17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Wasting Time
Ephesians 5:16-17517 votes
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Colossians 3:23204 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Proverbs 6:9-11178 votes
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Psalms 90:12151 votes
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 3:1142 votes
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Proverbs 6:6-8132 votes
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
James 4:14130 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.
Colossians 4:5-6117 votes
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
1 Corinthians 6:19-2072 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Ephesians 4:2872 votes
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Hosea 10:1271 votes
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
1 Peter 4:370 votes
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Ephesians 5:15-1763 votes
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Proverbs 24:30-3462 votes
I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Proverbs 26:1459 votes
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
Colossians 4:550 votes
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
John 9:445 votes
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Matthew 25:14-3035 votes
For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
Proverbs 14:2333 votes
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Psalms 39:4-532 votes
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Proverbs 12:1130 votes
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Proverbs 18:929 votes
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
Ecclesiastes 3:1129 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.
Romans 8:3728 votes
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
James 4:1726 votes
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
What does the Bible say about wasting time?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:16-17 on the subject of wasting time. Across 3,333 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 3:23, Proverbs 6:9-11, Psalms 90:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.