Bible Verses about “wasting time”
The Bible contains 26 verses about wasting time across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;”
“¶ To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”
“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.”
“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].”
“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.”
“Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
“¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:”
“Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,”
“Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest.”
“¶ So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.”
“¶ Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.”
“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?”
“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:”
“[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:”
“[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:”
“So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.”
“So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.”
“¶ I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;”
“And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, [and] nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.”
“Then I saw, [and] considered [it] well: I looked upon [it, and] received instruction.”
“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.”
“¶ [As] the door turneth upon his hinges, so [doth] the slothful upon his bed.”