100 Bible Verses About Time Management

And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.

As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

So the people rested on the seventh day.

She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.

For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:

And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.

Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.

And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath–jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the Lord; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.

In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.

And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.

And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.

The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.

And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

And when David enquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.

Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.

Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh–naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:

Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.