54 Bible Verses about Days

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2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day.

Psalm 39:4

LORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how long I am to be of this world.

Matthew 24:37

But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Psalm 90:4

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

Psalm 84:10

for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand outside of them. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Matthew 24:38

For as they were in the days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,

Genesis 2:2

And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Amos 8:11

Behold, the days come, said the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine to the earth, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts

Luke 17:28

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

Romans 14:6

He that observes the day, let him observe it unto the Lord; and he that does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He that eats, eats unto the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that does not eat, unto the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

Job 38:12

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days? Hast thou shown the dayspring its place,

Jonah 1:17

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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Days » Great, or last

Malachi 4:1

For, behold, the day comes that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, said the LORD of the hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep their first estate but left their own habitation, he has reserved in eternal chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 6:17

for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand before him?

Days » Times of adversity called day of the lord

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the LORD of the hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

Zechariah 14:1

Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

Joel 2:1

Blow the shofar in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble for the day of the LORD comes, for it is near at hand;

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the Gentiles.

Isaiah 13:6

Howl; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

Days » Feast of » Of visitation

Luke 19:44

and shall cast thee down to the ground and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

Isaiah 10:3

And what will ye do in the day of visitation and in the desolation which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help and where will ye leave your glory?

Jeremiah 10:15

They are vanity and the work of scorn: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Jeremiah 46:21

Also her soldiers are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also turned back, and all fled away without stopping: because the day of their calamity was come upon them and the time of their visitation.

More verses: Hosea 9:7 Micah 7:4

Days » of the Lord » General references to

1 Corinthians 5:5

let such a one be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 1:14

as also ye have known in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Days » Prophetic

Daniel 9:24-27

Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the prevarication and to conclude the sin and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness and seal the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies. Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to cause the people to return and to build Jerusalem unto the Anointed Prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks, while the street shall be built again and the wall, even in troublous times. And after the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be killed and shall have nothing: (and the ruling people that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; whose end shall be as a flood, until at the end of the war it shall be cut off with desolation). read more.
In one week (they are now seventy) he shall confirm the covenant by many: and at the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the many abominations, desolation shall come, even until complete destruction shall be poured out upon the abominable people.

Daniel 8:14

And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days of evening and morning; then shall the sanctuary be justified.

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years are as one day.

Daniel 12:11-12

And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away until the abomination of desolation, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waits and comes unto one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

Revelation 11:3

And I will give my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

Days » Illustrative of » Spiritual light

Days » General reference to

Jeremiah 33:20

Thus hath the LORD said; If ye can break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, such that there should not be day nor night in their season,

Days » Feast of » Of preparation

Matthew 27:62

Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the princes of the priests and the Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

Mark 15:42

And now when the evening was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

Luke 23:54

And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

John 19:14

And it was the preparation of the passover and about the sixth hour; then he said unto the Jews, Behold your King!

Days » Judgment » Called the day of the lord

1 Corinthians 5:5

let such a one be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 1:14

as also ye have known in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Wrath

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath, but the whole earth shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all those that dwell in the earth.

Job 20:28

The increase of his house shall be taken captive; they shall be scattered in the day of his wrath.

Zephaniah 1:15

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » The lord

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the LORD of the hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastens greatly, the bitter voice of the day of the LORD; the mighty man shall cry there.

Isaiah 13:6

Howl; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Evil

Jeremiah 17:17

Do not be a terror unto me; thou art my hope in the day of evil.

Amos 6:3

Ye that put far away the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near;

Days » Artificial, divided into » Evening

Genesis 8:11

and the dove came in to him in the evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off, so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

Jeremiah 6:4

Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up towards the south. Woe unto us! for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

Days » of the Lord » Of pentecost

Acts 20:16

For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, not to detain himself in Asia, for he hasted to keep the day of Pentecost, if it were possible for him, in Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 16:8

But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

Days » Illustrative of » Time of judgment

1 Corinthians 3:13

the work of each one shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire; the work of each one, whatever sort it is, the fire shall put it to test.

1 Corinthians 4:3

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by man's judgment; I do not even judge my own self.

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Calamity

Deuteronomy 32:35

Vengeance and recompense are mine, in the time when their foot shall slide; for the day of their calamity is at hand and that which is determined upon them makes haste.

Jeremiah 18:17

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their perdition.

Days » Last day

Days » Time the natural day was from sun-rise to sun-set » Paul preached at troas

Days » A time of mercy called a day of » Visitation

Jeremiah 27:22

they shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I visit them, said the LORD; and afterwards I will bring them up and restore them to this place.

Days » Artificial, divided into » Break of

Genesis 32:26

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

Days » Latterly subdivided into twelve hours

Matthew 20:5-6

Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle and said unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Matthew 20:3

And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace

Days » Natural, from evening to evening

Leviticus 23:32

It shall be unto you a sabbath of sabbaths, and ye shall afflict your souls, beginning in the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening unto evening, shall ye rest on your sabbath.

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Slaughter

Isaiah 30:25

And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall fall.

Jeremiah 12:3

But thou, O LORD, dost know me; thou hast seen me and tried my heart toward thee; pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and mark them for the day of slaughter.

Days » Artificial, divided into » Morning

Exodus 29:39

The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning, and the other lamb thou shalt offer at evening.

2 Samuel 23:4

And as the light of the morning when the sun rises, of a morning shining forth without clouds, as the shining forth through light rain upon the tender grass of the earth:

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Vengeance

Isaiah 61:2

to proclaim the year of the LORD's favour, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Days » Artificial, divided into » Noon

Genesis 43:16

And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home and slay an animal and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.

Days » Day's journey, eighteen or twenty miles

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.

Exodus 3:18

And they shall hearken to thy voice, and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has found us; therefore, we shall now go three days' journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

Jonah 3:4

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed.

Days » Time the natural day was from sun-rise to sun-set » Christ appeared to the two on the way to emmaus

Luke 24:15

And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near and went together with them.

Luke 24:13-14

And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was about sixty furlongs from Jerusalem. And they talked together of all these things which had happened.

Days » Th sixth day of the week called preparation day

John 19:31

The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that sabbath day was a high day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.

Mark 15:42

And now when the evening was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

John 19:14

And it was the preparation of the passover and about the sixth hour; then he said unto the Jews, Behold your King!

John 19:42

Therefore they laid Jesus there because of the Jews' preparation day, for the sepulchre was near.

Days » Prophetical, a year

Ezekiel 4:6

And when thou hast accomplished them, thou shalt sleep on thy right side this second time, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: a day for a year; I have appointed thee each day for a year.

Daniel 12:12

Blessed is he that waits and comes unto one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Darkness

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of shadow that spreads itself upon the mountains as the dawn: a people great and strong; there has not ever been the like, neither shall there be any more after him, even to the years of many generations.

Zephaniah 1:15

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Days » A time of festivity called a » Solemn day

Numbers 10:10

Also in the day of your gladness and in your solemn days and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace, that they may be to you for a memorial before your God; I AM your God.

Hosea 9:5

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

Days » A time of festivity called a » Good day

Esther 8:17

And in each province and in each city wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a banquet and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

Esther 9:19

Therefore, the Jews of the villages that dwelt in the unwalled towns made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and banquet and a good day and of sending portions one to another.

Days » The time for labor

Psalm 104:22

The sun arises, they withdraw and lay themselves down in their dens.

Days » Under the control of God

Amos 5:8

look unto him that makes the seven stars and Orion and turns the shadow of death into the morning and makes the day dark with night, that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name;

Amos 8:9

And it shall come to pass in that day, said the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will cover the earth with darkness in the clear day;

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Anger

Lamentations 2:21

Schin The young and the old lay on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men fell by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed and hast not forgiven.

Days » A time of mercy called a day of » Salvation

Days » Six working days ordained

Ezekiel 46:1

Thus hath the Lord GOD said: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; and the day of the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the same manner it shall be opened the day of the new moon.

Days » Judgment » A figure of spiritual illumination

Days » Artificial, the time of the sun's continuance above the horizon

Genesis 31:39-40

That which was torn of beasts I did not bring unto thee; I bore the sin; thou didst require of my hand that which was stolen, whether by day or by night. By day the drought consumed me, and by night, the frost; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Adversity

Days » A time of mercy called a day of » Redemption

Days » A time of festivity called a » Day of gladness

Numbers 10:10

Also in the day of your gladness and in your solemn days and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace, that they may be to you for a memorial before your God; I AM your God.

Days » Artificial, divided into » Decline of

Judges 19:8-9

And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart, and the damsel's father said, Strengthen now thy heart. And after having eaten together, they tarried until afternoon. And when the man rose up to depart, he and his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening, I pray you tarry all night; behold, the day comes to an end; lodge here that thy heart may be merry, and tomorrow ye shall get up early and be on your way that thou may come unto thy tent.

Days » Illustrative of » The path of the just

Days » Time of, ascertained by the dial

2 Kings 20:11

Then Isaiah, the prophet, cried unto the LORD, and he caused the shadow to return by the degrees by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward.

Days » A time of festivity called a » Day which the lord has made

Days » Succession of, secured by covenant

Days » Sometimes divided into four parts

Nehemiah 9:3

And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed and worshipped the LORD their God.

Days » Wild beasts hide during

Psalm 104:22

The sun arises, they withdraw and lay themselves down in their dens.

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Trouble

Psalm 102:2

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me; in the day when I call, answer me speedily.

Days » A time of mercy called a day of » God's power

Psalm 110:3

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauty of holiness; as the dew which falls from the womb of the morning, thus shall those who are thine be born unto thee.

Days » A time of festivity called a » Day of good tidings

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said one to another, We do not well; this day is a day to give good tidings, and we are silent; if we tarry until the morning light, we shall be taken in the iniquity. Now, therefore, come, that we may enter in and give the news in the king's house.

Days » The light first called

Days » Made for the glory of God

Days » Time the natural day was from sun-rise to sun-set » Christ appeared to the disciples

John 20:19

Then the same day at evening, being the first of the sabbaths, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said unto them, Peace be unto you.

Days » Proclaims the glory of God

Psalm 19:2

One day provides a word for the next day, and one night declares wisdom unto the next night.

Days » Time the natural day was from sun-rise to sun-set » The natural night was from sun-set to sun-rise

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Destruction

Job 21:30

That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction, they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Visitation

Micah 7:4

The best of them is as a brier; the most upright as a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, thy visitation, comes; now shall be their confusion.

Days » Divided into twelve hours

John 11:9

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world.

Days » Sabbath day's journey, about two-thousand paces

Acts 1:12

Then they returned unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.

Days » The first day of the week called the lord's day

Great » Days

Malachi 4:1

For, behold, the day comes that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, said the LORD of the hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep their first estate but left their own habitation, he has reserved in eternal chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 6:17

for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand before him?

Lord's » Days » Doings, the

Isaiah 28:21

For the LORD shall rise up as in Mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

Matthew 21:42

Jesus said unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

Genesis 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from the LORD; we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

1 Samuel 3:11

And the LORD said unto Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of each one that hears it shall tingle.

More verses: Psalm 126:3 Isaiah 29:14

Lord's » Days » Supper, the

Mark 14:22

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and, blessing it, broke it and gave to them and said, Take, eat: this is my body.

1 Corinthians 11:23

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread;

Lord's » Days » Paul preached at troas

Lord's » Days » Prayer

Matthew 6:9-13

Ye, therefore, are to pray like this: Our Father who art in the heavens, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. read more.
And set us free from our debts, as we set free our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Luke 11:2-4

And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father who art in the heavens, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so also in the earth. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Lord's » Days » Christ appeared to the two on the way to emmaus

Luke 24:15

And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near and went together with them.

Luke 24:13-14

And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was about sixty furlongs from Jerusalem. And they talked together of all these things which had happened.

Lord's » Days » Christ appeared to the disciples

John 20:19

Then the same day at evening, being the first of the sabbaths, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said unto them, Peace be unto you.

Lord's » Days » Christ appeared to mary

Topics on Days

Dark Days

Job 3:4

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above; neither let the light shine upon it.

Days, Last

Acts 2:17-18

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

Eight Days

Luke 9:28

And it came to pass about eight days after these words, he took Peter and John and James and went up into the mountain to pray.

Four Or Five Days

Judges 11:40

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite, four days in a year.

Last Days

Isaiah 2:2-4

And it shall come to pass in the last of the days or times, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be confirmed as the head of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills; and all the Gentiles shall flow unto it.

No Work On Feast Days

Exodus 20:10

but the seventh day shall be the sabbath of the LORD thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manslave, nor thy maidslave, nor thy beast, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;

Seven Days

Exodus 12:15

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Seven Days For Legal Purposes

Exodus 22:30

Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen and with thy sheep; seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it to me.

Several Days

Exodus 21:21

Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.

Six Days

Genesis 1:1-31

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Ten Or More Days

Genesis 24:55

Then her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

The Final Days Of Time

Acts 2:17-18

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

Three Days

Genesis 30:36

And he set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

Three Days And Nights

Jonah 1:17

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Two Days

Exodus 16:29

See that the LORD has given you the sabbath; therefore, he gives you the bread of two days on the sixth day; abide ye every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

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