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20 Bible Verses About Time

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  • Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 lists paired times, from being born and dying to war and peace, and 3:11 says God has made everything beautiful in its time while setting eternity in the human heart.
  • Psalm 90 sets God “from everlasting to everlasting” beside a human life of seventy or eighty years that quickly passes, and asks God to “teach us to number our days.”
  • “Making the most of every opportunity” in Ephesians 5:16 and Colossians 4:5 is the phrase the King James Version renders “redeeming the time,” built on the Greek kairos.
  • Galatians 4:4 says God sent his Son “when the set time had fully come,” comparing the years before to an heir waiting for the date his father set.
  • Matthew 24:36, Acts 1:7 and 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 decline to give a date for the end and give an instruction instead.

The Bible treats time as something God made and governs. Every activity has its season (Ecclesiastes 3:1), a person’s times are in God’s hands (Psalm 31:15), and the last day is known to the Father alone (Matthew 24:36). A human life is short (Psalm 90:12) and is to be used wisely (Ephesians 5:15-16). Two of the Greek words the New Testament uses for time appear in the passages below. Chronos is time as duration, as in “the fullness of the…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

King James Version renderings of Ephesians 5:16 and Galatians 4:4. biblegateway.com

Strong’s Greek 2540, καιρός (kairos): time, season, opportunity; cites Ephesians 5:16, 2 Corinthians 6:2, Acts 1:7 and 1 Thessalonians 5:1. biblehub.com/greek/2540

Strong’s Greek 5550, χρόνος (chronos): time; cites Galatians 4:4, and Acts 1:7 and 1 Thessalonians 5:1 where it is joined with kairos. biblehub.com/greek/5550

Strong’s Greek 1805, ἐξαγοράζω (exagorazo): to redeem, to buy back, to make the most of; cites Ephesians 5:16 and Colossians 4:5. biblehub.com/greek/1805

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