Bible Verses about “opportunity”
The Bible contains 20 verses about opportunity across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:”
“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”
“For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
“¶ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”
“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”
“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].”
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,”
“Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;”
“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
“Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.”
“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all [men], especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”
“¶ Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.”
“Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”
“Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
“He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;”
“He shall dwell on high: his place of defence [shall be] the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure.”