6 Bible Verses about Wasting Time

and continue to make the most of your opportunities, for the times are evil. So stop becoming senseless, but understand what the Lord's will is.

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as work for the Lord and not for men,

Practice living prudently in your relations with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities. Always let your conversation be seasoned with salt, that is, with winsomeness, so that you may know how to make a fitting answer to everyone.

The man who used to steal must now stop stealing; rather, he must keep on working and toiling with his own hands at some honest vocation, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.

For the time that is past is enough for you to have accomplished what the heathen like to do, leading lives that are steeped in sensuality, lustful desires, drunkenness, carousing, revelry, dissipation, and idolatry that leads to lawlessness,

although you do not have the slightest knowledge of tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? It is really nothing but a mist which appears for a little while and then disappears.