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.
“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”
“for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:”
“redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;”
“Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.”
“Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”
“Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.”
“Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”
“Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;”
“which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,”
“provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.”
“So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
“Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.”
“How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?”
“For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.”
“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:”
“a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;”
“so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.”
“so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.”
“I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;”
“Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.”
“Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:”
“Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.”
“As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.”