100+ Powerful Bible Quotes on Time for Inspiration & Reflection

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.

A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away.

A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

God has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

My times are in your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors.

You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness.

In the fullness of time, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law.

Jesus said, “My hour has not yet come.”

When the set time had fully come, God sent his Son to redeem those under the law.

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you.

With the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles.

Be still, and know that I am God.

The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.

Wait for the Lord; watch and be strong in hope.

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

It is good that one should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

They shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.

See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it.

He rains down manna for the people and gives them grain from heaven.

Let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

God has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

He makes all things beautiful in its time.

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.

Their measuring line goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past.

Or as a watch in the night, so are we consumed by your anger.

Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

The end of all things is near; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time.

Because the days are evil.

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.

Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward.

You are serving the Lord Christ.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Do not let your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day.

Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

The Lord works all things according to the counsel of his will.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.

I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

All things work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand.

That we should walk in them.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword.

Piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Nothing in all creation is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake.

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.

If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

For the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith.

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers.

To care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity.

The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds.

For riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?

The hay appears, the new growth appears, and the herbs of the mountain are gathered.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.

Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food.

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

The Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places.

Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness.

That my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me.

Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.

For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.

But God has revealed it to us through the Spirit.

For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing.

But I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.