19 Bible Verses About Time and God’s Timing

In the Bible, time belongs to God, and a human life is short. Daniel praises the God who “changes times and seasons” (Daniel 2:21), and Psalm 39:5 calls a lifetime “a mere handbreadth.” Promises such as Habakkuk 2:3 and Jeremiah 29:10-11 come with an appointed time to wait for. Two of the Greek words the New Testament uses for time are chronos and kairos. Chronos is time as it passes, as in “the fulness of the time” (Galatians 4:4, KJV);…