What the Bible says about using time well

The 10 verses readers most often turn to for this topic, quoted in full from the Berean Standard Bible.

Eph 5:16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Ps 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

Col 4:5Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.

Jas 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Eccl 3:1To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Ps 31:15My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.

2 Pet 3:8Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Eph 5:15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Prov 6:6–8Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise. Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler, it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.

Luke 14:28Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?

These are the verses readers most often turn to for this topic — not a teaching on it. Read each in its chapter.

Sources

The verses of each topic and their order: OpenBible.info topical data, by readers’ votes: OpenBible.info · CC BY 4.0

Berean Standard Bible · Public domain