Bible verses about time management

As Christians we are not to manage our time the same way the
world manages theirs. We must make sure that we seek God in
everything that we do. We are to organize our time and plan
wisely for the future. There are time management apps that we
can download on our phones that we should all take advantage
of. If youre old school a simple notepad or calendar will help.

We are to take care of the most important tasks first. We should

pray for God to remove procrastination and idleness from our
lives. We should seek to do Gods will daily.
Continually meditate on Scripture and allow the Lord to direct
your life. Everything in this life will burn. Dont put your focus
on the world.

When you live with an eternal perspective that will lead to

managing your time better and doing Gods will. Always
remember that ever minute counts. Dont waste time.
Quotes

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

David Brainerd

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a

set amount of it. Rick Warren

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit,

and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and
crevices of time, fill them up with holy service. Charles
Spurgeon

What does the Bible say?

1. Ephesians 5:15-17 So, then, be careful how you live. Do not
be unwise but wise, making the best use of your time because
the times are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand
what the Lords will is.
2. Colossians 4:5 Behave wisely toward outsiders, making the
best use of your time.
Seek Wisdom from the Lord.

3. Psalm 90:12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a

heart of wisdom.
4. James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who
gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given
him.
Live with eternity in mind.
5. 2 Corinthians 4:18 So we do not focus on what is seen, but on
what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is
unseen is eternal.
6. Ecclesiastes 3:11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for
its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but
even so, people cannot see the whole scope of Gods work from
beginning to end.
7. 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 So, we are always confident and know
that while we are at home in the body we are away from the
Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight, and we are confident
and satisfied to be out of the body and at home with the Lord.
Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim
to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the tribunal
of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the
body, whether good or worthless.
Keep in mind that you are never guaranteed tomorrow.

8. Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not

know what a day may bring.
9. James 4:13-14 Now listen, you who say, Today or tomorrow
we will go to such and such a town, stay there a year, conduct
business, and make money. You do not know what tomorrow
will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a
little while and then vanishes.
Dont procrastinate! Make plans for the future.
10. Luke 14:28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower,
doesnt first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has
enough to complete it?
11. Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent lead only to plenty,
but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
12. Proverbs 6:6-8 Consider the ant, you lazy bum. Watch its
ways, and become wise. Although it has no overseer, officer, or
ruler, in summertime it stores its food supply. At harvest time it
gathers its food.
Allow the Lord to guide your life through the Spirit.
13. Proverbs 16:9 A person plans his way, but the LORD directs
his steps.
14. John 16:13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will
guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own

authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you
what is to come.
Make time for God every day.
15. Psalm 55:16-17 But I will call on God, and the LORD will
rescue me. Morning, noon, and night I cry out in my distress,
and the LORD hears my voice.
Prioritize, organize, and set goals.
16. Exodus 18:17-21 What youre doing is not good, Moses
father-in-law said to him. You will certainly wear out both
yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is
too heavy for you. You cant do it alone. Now listen to me; I will
give you some advice, and God be with you. You be the one to
represent the people before God and bring their cases to Him.
Instruct them about the statutes and laws, and teach them the
way to live and what they must do. But you should select from
all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating
bribes. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands,
hundreds, fifties, and tens.
17. Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Put your trust in the Lord.

18. Psalm 31:14-15 But I trust in you, LORD. I say, You are
my God. My times are in your hands. Deliver me from the hands
of my enemies and from those who pursue me.
19.Psalm 37:5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him,
and He will act,
We must have a good work ethic.
20. Proverbs 14:23 In all hard work there is profit, but merely
talking about it only brings poverty.
21. Proverbs 20:13 Do not love sleep or youll become poor,
keep your eyes open and youll have plenty of food.
22. Proverbs 6:9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your sleep?
23. Proverbs 10:4 Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent
hands bring wealth.
Reminders
24. Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 There is a season for everything, and a
time for every event under heaven: a time to be born, and a time
to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot what was planted;
25. 1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight for the faith; take hold
of eternal life that you were called to and have made a good
confession about in the presence of many witnesses.

56 Bible Verses about Time Management

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 825 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time,
because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord
is.
Psalm 90:12 ESV / 361 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Colossians 4:5 ESV / 252 helpful votes

Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
Ecclesiastes 3:8 ESV / 183 helpful votes

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Luke 14:28 ESV / 166 helpful votes

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he
has enough to complete it?
Matthew 6:33 ESV / 159 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to
you.
James 4:13-17 ESV / 148 helpful votes

Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a
year there and trade and make a profit yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What
is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought
to say, If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. As it is, you boast in your arrogance.
All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is
sin.
Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 126 helpful votes

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Psalm 39:4-5 ESV / 118 helpful votes

O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting
I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before
you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
John 9:4 ESV / 95 helpful votes

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can
work.
Psalm 31:14-15 ESV / 84 helpful votes

But I trust in you, O Lord; I say, You are my God. My times are in your hand; rescue me from
the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
2 Peter 3:8-14 ESV / 74 helpful votes

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and
a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness,
but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach
repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away
with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works
that are done on it will be exposed. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of
people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming
of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the
heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! ...
Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the
bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their
lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the
bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...
Matthew 24:36 ESV / 53 helpful votes

But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but
the Father only.
Proverbs 3:9 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
Acts 1:7-8 ESV / 43 helpful votes

He said to them, It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own
authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be
my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 43 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of
days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
James 1:1-27 ESV / 35 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion:
Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that
the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you
may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God,
who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...
Galatians 4:4 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the
law,
1 Corinthians 14:40 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But all things should be done decently and in order.

Psalm 139:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days
that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Ecclesiastes 12:1-5 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years
draw near of which you will say, I have no pleasure in them; before the sun and the light and
the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the
keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they
are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are
shutwhen the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the
daughters of song are brought low they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the
way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man
is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets
Habakkuk 2:3 ESV / 22 helpful votes

For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the endit will not lie. If it seems
slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

Galatians 4:8-20 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back
again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be
once more? You observe days and months and seasons and years! I am afraid I may have labored
over you in vain. Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You
did me no wrong. ...
Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 21 helpful votes

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so
that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Acts 17:31 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he
has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.
Acts 17:26 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having
determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
Isaiah 60:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes

The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the Lord; in its
time I will hasten it.
Esther 4:14 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another
place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to
the kingdom for such a time as this?
Proverbs 10:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 15 helpful votes

All things are lawful, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful, but not all things
build up.
Proverbs 20:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the
people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created
by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith
Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as
righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he
still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found,
because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased
God. ...
John 3:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works
have been carried out in God.
Isaiah 33:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the
fear of the Lord is Zion's treasure.
Numbers 23:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said,
and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Exodus 20:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your
God is giving you.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 13 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Galatians 6:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Luke 19:11-35 ESV / 12 helpful votes

As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and
because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. He said therefore,
A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling
ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, Engage in business until I come.
But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, We do not want this man to
reign over us. When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to
whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by
doing business. ...
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I
appointed you a prophet to the nations.
Romans 13:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation
is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
Hebrews 6:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And this we will do if God permits.

1 Corinthians 3:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by
fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
Jeremiah 2:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days
without number.
Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like
eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
2 Corinthians 3:5-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency
is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but
of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Romans 8:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Judges 18:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

They said, Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very
good. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land.
2 Peter 3:3-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their
own sinful desires. They will say, Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the
fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation. For
they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed
out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that
then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth
that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the
ungodly. ...
Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and
faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always
thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your
faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up
for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...
1 John 5:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time,
because the days are evil.
Exodus 34:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest
you shall rest.