Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
redeeming the time: for the days are evil.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Holman Bible
making the most of the time,
International Standard Version
making the best use of your time because the times are evil.
A Conservative Version
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
American Standard Version
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
making the most of every opportunity, because these days are evil.
Anderson New Testament
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Bible in Basic English
Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.
Common New Testament
making the most of your time, because the days are evil.
Daniel Mace New Testament
weighing the circumstances of the season, because the times are dangerous.
Darby Translation
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Godbey New Testament
buying in the opportunity, because the days are evil.
Goodspeed New Testament
and make the most of your opportunity, for these are evil times.
John Wesley New Testament
not as fools, but as wise men, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Julia Smith Translation
Making purchase of time, for the days are evil.
King James 2000
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Lexham Expanded Bible
making the most of the time because the days are evil.
Modern King James verseion
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Moffatt New Testament
make the very most of your time, for these are evil days.
Montgomery New Testament
Buy up opportunity, for the times are evil.
NET Bible
taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
New Heart English Bible
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Noyes New Testament
buying up for yourselves opportunities, because the days are evil.
Sawyer New Testament
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
The Emphasized Bible
Buying out for yourselves the opportunity, because, the days, are evil;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Making the most of every opportunity; for these are evil days.
Webster
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Weymouth New Testament
Buy up your opportunities, for these are evil times.
Williams New Testament
and continue to make the most of your opportunities, for the times are evil.
World English Bible
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Worrell New Testament
buying up the opportunity, because the days are evil.
Worsley New Testament
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Youngs Literal Translation
redeeming the time, because the days are evil;
Themes
Exhortations » Special » To redeem the time
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 5:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Consistency In The Christian Life
15 Take heed therefore that ye walk circumspectly - not as fools, but as wise - 16 redeeming the time: for the days are evil. 17 Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Cross References
Ephesians 6:13
For this cause, take unto you the armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand perfect in all things.
Colossians 4:5
Walk wisely to them that are without, and redeem the time.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember thy maker in thy youth, before the days of adversity come, and or the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, "I have no pleasure in them";
Amos 5:13
Therefore the wise must now be fain to hold his tongue, so wicked a time is it.
Psalm 37:19
They shall not be confounded in the perilous time; and in the days of dearth they shall have enough.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 11:2
Give part sven days, and also upon the eighth, for thou knowest not what misery shall come upon earth.
John 12:35
Then Jesus said unto them, "Yet a little while is the light with you: walk while ye have light, lest the darkness come on you. He that walketh in the dark, knoweth not whither he goeth.
Acts 11:28-29
And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit, that there should be great dearth throughout all the world, which came to pass in the Emperor Claudius' days.
Romans 13:11
This also we know, I mean the season: how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
1 Corinthians 7:26
I suppose that it is good for the present necessity. For it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
This say I, brethren: the time is short. It remaineth that they which have wives, be as though they had none:
Galatians 1:4
which gave himself for our sins, to deliver us from this present evil world, through the will of God our father,
Galatians 6:10
While we have, therefore, time; let us do good unto all men, and specially, unto them which are of the household of faith.
Ephesians 6:15
and shod with shoes prepared by the gospel of peace.