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 is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years 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 frail I am.

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 your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Matthew 24:38

For as in the days that were before the flood they were 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 ended 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, says the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, 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 did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

Ecclesiastes 11:9

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

Romans 14:6

He that regards the day, regards it unto the Lord; and he that regards not the day, to the Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.

Job 38:12

Have you commanded the morning since your days began; and caused the dawn to know 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, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Jude 1:6

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

Days » Times of adversity called day of the lord

Isaiah 2:12

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

Zechariah 14:1

Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.

Joel 2:1

Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land 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 for the nations.

Isaiah 13:6

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

Days » Feast of » Of visitation

Luke 19:44

And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone upon another; because you knew not the time of your visitation.

Isaiah 10:3

And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the desolation which shall come from afar? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your riches?

Jeremiah 10:15

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their judgment they shall perish.

Jeremiah 46:21

Also her hired soldiers are in the midst of her like fatted calves; for they also are turned back, and have fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity had come upon them, and the time of their punishment.

More verses: Hosea 9:7 Micah 7:4

Days » of the Lord » General references to

1 Corinthians 5:5

To deliver such a one 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 you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Days » Prophetic

Daniel 9:24-27

Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. read more.
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Daniel 8:14

And he said unto me, For two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

2 Peter 3:8

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

Daniel 12:11-12

And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

Revelation 11:3

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

Days » Illustrative of » Spiritual light

Days » General reference to

Jeremiah 33:20

Thus says the LORD; if you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

Days » Feast of » Of preparation

Matthew 27:62

Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and 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 was coming on.

John 19:14

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

Days » Judgment » Called the day of the lord

1 Corinthians 5:5

To deliver such a one 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 you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you 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 land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Job 20:28

The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away 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 ruin 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 hosts shall come upon everyone that is proud and lofty, and upon everyone 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 quickly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: there the mighty man shall cry out bitterly.

Isaiah 13:6

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

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

Jeremiah 17:17

Be not a terror unto me: you are my hope in the day of evil.

Amos 6:3

You 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, lo, in her mouth was a plucked off olive leaf: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

Jeremiah 6:4

Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are lengthening.

Days » of the Lord » Of pentecost

Acts 20:16

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hastened, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

1 Corinthians 16:8

But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

Days » Illustrative of » Time of judgment

1 Corinthians 3:13

Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall test every man's work of what sort it is.

1 Corinthians 4:3

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not my own self.

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

Deuteronomy 32:35

To me belongs vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make 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 calamity.

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 shall they be until the day that I visit them, says the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

Days » Artificial, divided into » Break of

Genesis 32:24

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

Genesis 32:26

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go, except you 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 you 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 rest, and you shall humble yourselves: in the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening unto evening, shall you celebrate 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 fall.

Jeremiah 12:3

But you, O LORD, know me: you have seen me, and tested my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Days » Artificial, divided into » Morning

Exodus 29:39

The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening:

2 Samuel 23:4

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth, by clear shining after rain.

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

Isaiah 61:2

To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, 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 he requested for himself that he might die; and 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 your voice: and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and you shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us: and now let us go, we beseech you, 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 overthrown.

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 discussed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

Luke 24:13-14

And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. 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: and he said unto the Jews, Behold your King!

John 19:42

There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulcher was near at hand.

Days » Prophetical, a year

Ezekiel 4:6

And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.

Daniel 12:12

Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty 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 thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, through the years of many generations.

Zephaniah 1:15

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of ruin 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, you shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.

Hosea 9:5

What will you 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 every province, and in every city, wherever the king's command and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast 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 feasting, and a good day, and of sending presents one to another.

Days » The time for labor

Psalm 104:22

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

Days » Under the control of God

Amos 5:8

Seek 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, says the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth on a clear day:

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

Lamentations 2:21

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have slain them in the day of your anger; you have killed, and not pitied.

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

Days » Six working days ordained

Ezekiel 46:1

Thus says the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that faces the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

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 brought not unto you; I bore the loss of it; of my hand did you require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night. Thus I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night; and my sleep departed 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

Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD 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 young woman's father said, Refresh your heart, I pray you. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them. And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young woman's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow get you early on your way, that you may go home.

Days » Illustrative of » The path of the just

Days » Time of, ascertained by the dial

2 Kings 20:11

And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the dial 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 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 worshiped the LORD their God.

Days » Wild beasts hide during

Psalm 104:22

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

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

Psalm 102:2

Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline your 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

Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.

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 of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.

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 day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you.

Days » Proclaims the glory of God

Psalm 19:2

Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows 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

That the wicked are reserved to 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 like a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen and your punishment comes; now shall be their perplexity.

Days » Divided into twelve hours

John 11:9

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walks in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world.

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

Acts 1:12

Then returned they 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, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Jude 1:6

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

Lord's » Days » Doings, the

Isaiah 28:21

For the LORD shall rise up as on mount Perazim, he shall be angry as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his awesome work; and bring to pass his act, his alien act.

Matthew 21:42

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

Genesis 24:50

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

1 Samuel 3:11

And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every 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 did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and 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

After this manner therefore pray: Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. read more.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Luke 11:2-4

And he said unto them, When you pray, say, Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so on 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 discussed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

Luke 24:13-14

And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. 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 day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus 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, says 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 sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a 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 days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

No Work On Feast Days

Exodus 20:10

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates:

Seven Days

Exodus 12:15

Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever 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 shall you do with your oxen, and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

Several Days

Exodus 21:21

But, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his property.

Six Days

Genesis 1:1-31

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Ten Or More Days

Genesis 24:55

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

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