51 Bible Verses about Days

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2 Peter 3:8

But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

Psalm 39:4

Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

Matthew 24:37

And as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

Matthew 24:38

Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,

Genesis 2:2

And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.

Amos 8:11

See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.

2 Peter 3:3

Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,

Luke 17:28

In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Romans 14:6

He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.

Job 38:12

Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

Jonah 1:17

And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

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Days » Great, or last

Malachi 4:1

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

Days » Times of adversity called day of the lord

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

Zechariah 14:1

See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

Joel 2:1

Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.

Isaiah 13:6

Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

Days » Feast of » Of visitation

Luke 19:44

And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

Isaiah 10:3

And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

Jeremiah 10:15

They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

Jeremiah 46:21

And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.

More verses: Hosea 9:7 Micah 7:4

Days » of the Lord » General references to

1 Corinthians 5:5

That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Malachi 4:5

See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.

2 Corinthians 1:14

Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Days » Prophetic

Daniel 9:24-27

Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place. Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork. And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed. read more.
And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.

Daniel 8:14

And he said to him, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be made clean.

2 Peter 3:8

But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

Daniel 12:11-12

And from the time when the regular burned offering is taken away, and an unclean thing causing fear is put up, there will be a thousand, two hundred and ninety days. A blessing will be on the man who goes on waiting, and comes to the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days.

Revelation 11:3

And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

Days » Illustrative of » Spiritual light

Days » General reference to

Jeremiah 33:20

The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,

Days » Feast of » Of preparation

Matthew 27:62

Now on the day after the getting ready of the Passover, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,

Mark 15:42

And when it was evening, because it was the time of getting ready, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

Luke 23:54

Now it was the day of making ready and the Sabbath was coming on.

John 19:14

(It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!

Days » Judgment » Called the day of the lord

1 Corinthians 5:5

That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Malachi 4:5

See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.

2 Corinthians 1:14

Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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

Zephaniah 1:18

Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

Job 20:28

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

Zephaniah 1:15

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

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

Isaiah 2:12

For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

Isaiah 13:6

Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

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

Jeremiah 17:17

Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.

Amos 6:3

You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;

Days » Artificial, divided into » Evening

Genesis 8:11

And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

Jeremiah 6:4

Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.

Days » of the Lord » Of pentecost

Acts 20:16

For Paul's purpose was to go past Ephesus, so that he might not be kept in Asia; for he was going quickly, in order, if possible, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

Days » Illustrative of » Time of judgment

1 Corinthians 3:13

Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.

1 Corinthians 4:3

But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.

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

Deuteronomy 32:35

Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.

Jeremiah 18:17

I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

Days » Last day

John 6:39

And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

John 11:24

Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.

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

Acts 20:7

And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

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

Jeremiah 27:22

They will be taken away to Babylon, and there they will be till the day when I send their punishment on them, says the Lord. Then I will take them up and put them back in their place.

Days » Artificial, divided into » Break of

Genesis 32:26

And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.

Days » Latterly subdivided into twelve hours

Matthew 20:5-6

Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same. And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing?

Matthew 20:3

And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing;

Days » Natural, from evening to evening

Leviticus 23:32

Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept.

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

Isaiah 30:25

And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.

Jeremiah 12:3

But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

Days » Artificial, divided into » Morning

Exodus 29:39

One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening:

2 Samuel 23:4

It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth

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

Isaiah 61:2

To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;

Days » Artificial, divided into » Noon

Genesis 43:16

And when Joseph saw Benjamin, he said to his chief servant, Take these men into my house, and make ready a meal, for they will take food with me in the middle of the day.

Days » Day's journey, eighteen or twenty miles

1 Kings 19:4

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Exodus 3:18

And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.

Jonah 3:4

And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.

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 while they were talking and questioning together, Jesus himself came near and went with them.

Luke 24:13-14

And then, two of them, on that very day, were going to a little town named Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem. And they were talking together about all those things which had taken place.

Days » Th sixth day of the week called preparation day

John 19:31

Now it was the day of getting ready for the Passover, and so that the bodies might not be on the cross on the Sabbath (because the day of that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews made a request to Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Mark 15:42

And when it was evening, because it was the time of getting ready, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

John 19:14

(It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!

John 19:42

So they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the Passover, and the place was near.

Days » Prophetical, a year

Ezekiel 4:6

And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you.

Daniel 12:12

A blessing will be on the man who goes on waiting, and comes to the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days.

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

Joel 2:2

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

Zephaniah 1:15

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

Days » A time of festivity called a » Solemn day

Numbers 10:10

And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.

Hosea 9:5

What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

Days » A time of festivity called a » Good day

Esther 8:17

And in every part of the kingdom and in every town, wherever the king's letter and his order came, the Jews were glad with great joy, and had a feast and a good day. And a great number of the people of the land became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had come on them.

Esther 9:19

So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.

Days » The time for labor

Psalm 104:22

The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.

Days » Under the control of God

Amos 5:8

Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

Amos 8:9

And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

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

Lamentations 2:21

The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.

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

Days » Six working days ordained

Ezekiel 46:1

This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the inner square looking to the east is to be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of the new moon it is to be open.

Days » Judgment » A figure of spiritual illumination

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

Genesis 31:39-40

Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night. This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my 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

And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.

Days » Artificial, divided into » Decline of

Judges 19:8-9

Then early on the morning of the fifth day he got up to go away; but the girl's father said, Keep up your strength; so the two of them had a meal, and the man and his woman and his servant did not go till after the middle of the day. And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.

Days » Illustrative of » The path of the just

Days » Time of, ascertained by the dial

2 Kings 20:11

Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz.

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 for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the law of their God; and for a fourth part of the day they were requesting forgiveness and worshipping the Lord their God.

Days » Wild beasts hide during

Psalm 104:22

The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.

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

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

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

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we say nothing: if we go on waiting here till the morning, punishment will come to us. So let us go and give the news to those of 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

Days » Proclaims the glory of God

Psalm 19:2

Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.

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

How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

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

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.

Days » Divided into twelve hours

John 11:9

Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world.

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

Acts 1:12

Then they went back to Jerusalem from the mountain named Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away.

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

Great » Days

Malachi 4:1

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

Lord's » Days » Doings, the

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.

Matthew 21:42

Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

Genesis 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel said in answer, This is the Lord's doing: it is not for us to say Yes or No to you.

1 Samuel 3:11

And the Lord said to Samuel, See, I will do a thing in Israel at which the ears of everyone hearing of it will be burning.

More verses: Psalm 126:3 Isaiah 29:14

Lord's » Days » Supper, the

Mark 14:22

And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.

1 Corinthians 11:23

For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,

Lord's » Days » Paul preached at troas

Acts 20:7

And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

Lord's » Days » Prayer

Matthew 6:9-13

Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth. Give us this day bread for our needs. read more.
And make us free of our debts, as we have made those free who are in debt to us. And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

Luke 11:2-4

And he said to them, When you say your prayers, say, Father, may your name be kept holy and your kingdom come. Give us every day bread for our needs. May we have forgiveness for our sins, as we make free all those who are in debt to us. And let us not be put to the test.

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

Luke 24:15

And while they were talking and questioning together, Jesus himself came near and went with them.

Luke 24:13-14

And then, two of them, on that very day, were going to a little town named Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem. And they were talking together about all those things which had taken place.

Lord's » Days » Christ appeared to the disciples

Lord's » Days » Christ appeared to mary

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Ancient Of Days

Daniel 7:9

I went on looking till the seats of kings were placed, and one like a very old man took his seat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool; his seat was flames of fire and its wheels burning fire.

Dark Days

Job 3:4

That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

Days, Last

Acts 2:17-18

And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:

Eight Days

Luke 9:28

And about eight days after he had said these things, he took Peter and John and James with him and went up into the mountain for prayer.

Four Or Five Days

Judges 11:40

For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year.

Last Days

Isaiah 2:2-4

And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.

No Work On Feast Days

Exodus 20:10

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

Seven Days

Exodus 12:15

For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

Seven Days For Legal Purposes

Exodus 22:30

In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me.

Several Days

Exodus 21:21

But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.

Six Days

Genesis 1:1-31

At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

Ten Or More Days

Genesis 24:55

But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then she may go.

The Final Days Of Time

Acts 2:17-18

And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:

Three Days

Genesis 30:36

And sent them three days' journey away: and Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flock.

Three Days And Nights

Jonah 1:17

And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

Two Days

Exodus 16:29

See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

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