54 Bible Verses about Days

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2 Peter 3:8

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

Psalm 39:4

"O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

Matthew 24:37

For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

Psalm 90:4

Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.

Psalm 84:10

Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.

Matthew 24:38

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

Genesis 2:2

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

Amos 8:11

Be certain of this, the time is coming," says the sovereign Lord, "when I will send a famine through the land -- not a shortage of food or water but an end to divine revelation!

2 Peter 3:3

Above all, understand this: In the last days blatant scoffers will come, being propelled by their own evil urges

Luke 17:28

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.

Romans 14:6

The one who observes the day does it for the Lord. The one who eats, eats for the Lord because he gives thanks to God, and the one who abstains from eating abstains for the Lord, and he gives thanks to God.

Job 38:12

Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

Jonah 1:17

The Lord sent a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

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Days » Great, or last

Malachi 4:1

"For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up," says the Lord who rules over all. "It will not leave even a root or branch.

Jude 1:6

You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

Revelation 6:17

because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?"

Days » Times of adversity called day of the lord

Isaiah 2:12

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud -- they will be humiliated;

Zechariah 14:1

A day of the Lord is about to come when your possessions will be divided as plunder in your midst.

Joel 2:1

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm signal on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land shake with fear, for the day of the Lord is about to come. Indeed, it is near!

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, it will be a time of judgment for the nations.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the Lord's day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.

Days » Feast of » Of visitation

Luke 19:44

They will demolish you -- you and your children within your walls -- and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God."

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on judgment day, when destruction arrives from a distant place? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 46:21

Even her mercenaries will prove to be like pampered, well-fed calves. For they too will turn and run away. They will not stand their ground when the time for them to be destroyed comes, the time for them to be punished.

More verses: Hosea 9:7 Micah 7:4

Days » of the Lord » General references to

1 Corinthians 5:5

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:14

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Days » Prophetic

Daniel 9:24-27

"Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place. So know and understand: From the issuing of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in distressful times. Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy them. But his end will come speedily like a flood. Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction. read more.
He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. But in the middle of that week he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt. On the wing of abominations will come one who destroys, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys."

Daniel 8:14

He said to me, "To 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be put right again."

2 Peter 3:8

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

Daniel 12:11-12

From the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set in place, there are 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days.

Days » Illustrative of » Spiritual light

Days » General reference to

Jeremiah 33:20

"I, Lord, make the following promise: 'I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant

Days » Feast of » Of preparation

Matthew 27:62

The next day (which is after the day of preparation) the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate

Mark 15:42

Now when evening had already come, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

Luke 23:54

It was the day of preparation and the Sabbath was beginning.

John 19:14

(Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, about noon.) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, here is your king!"

Days » Judgment » Called the day of the lord

1 Corinthians 5:5

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:14

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just 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 will be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's angry judgment. The whole earth will be consumed by his fiery wrath. Indeed, he will bring terrifying destruction on all who live on the earth."

Job 20:28

A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath.

Zephaniah 1:15

That day will be a day of God's anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,

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

Isaiah 2:12

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud -- they will be humiliated;

Zephaniah 1:14

The Lord's great day of judgment is almost here; it is approaching very rapidly! There will be a bitter sound on the Lord's day of judgment; at that time warriors will cry out in battle.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the Lord's day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge.

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

Jeremiah 17:17

Do not cause me dismay! You are my source of safety in times of trouble.

Amos 6:3

You refuse to believe a day of disaster will come, but you establish a reign of violence.

Days » Artificial, divided into » Evening

Genesis 8:11

When the dove returned to him in the evening, there was a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Jeremiah 6:4

They will say, 'Prepare to do battle against it! Come on! Let's attack it at noon!' But later they will say, 'Oh, oh! Too bad! The day is almost over and the shadows of evening are getting long.

Days » of the Lord » Of pentecost

Acts 20:16

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

1 Corinthians 16:8

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,

Days » Illustrative of » Time of judgment

1 Corinthians 3:13

each builder's work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.

1 Corinthians 4:3

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

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

Deuteronomy 32:35

I will get revenge and pay them back at the time their foot slips; for the day of their disaster is near, and the impending judgment is rushing upon them!"

Jeremiah 18:17

I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them when disaster strikes them."

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

He has said, 'They will be carried off to Babylon. They will remain there until it is time for me to show consideration for them again. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.' I, the Lord, affirm this!"

Days » Artificial, divided into » Break of

Genesis 32:26

Then the man said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." "I will not let you go," Jacob replied, "unless you bless me."

Days » Latterly subdivided into twelve hours

Matthew 20:5-6

So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o'clock that afternoon, he did the same thing. And about five o'clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, 'Why are you standing here all day without work?'

Matthew 20:3

When it was about nine o'clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.

Days » Natural, from evening to evening

Leviticus 23:32

It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening until evening you must observe your Sabbath."

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

Isaiah 30:25

On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.

Jeremiah 12:3

But you, Lord, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!

Days » Artificial, divided into » Morning

Exodus 29:39

The first lamb you are to prepare in the morning, and the second lamb you are to prepare around sundown.

2 Samuel 23:4

is like the light of morning when the sun comes up, a morning in which there are no clouds. He is like the brightness after rain that produces grass from the earth.

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

Isaiah 61:2

to announce the year when the Lord will show his favor, the day when our God will seek vengeance, to console all who mourn,

Days » Artificial, divided into » Noon

Genesis 43:16

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household, "Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon."

Days » Day's journey, eighteen or twenty miles

1 Kings 19:4

while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: "I've had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors."

Exodus 3:18

"The elders will listen to you, and then you and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.'

Jonah 3:4

When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, "At the end of forty days, Nineveh will 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

While they were talking and debating these things, Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them

Luke 24:13-14

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.

Days » Th sixth day of the week called preparation day

John 19:31

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims' legs broken and the bodies taken down.

Mark 15:42

Now when evening had already come, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

John 19:14

(Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, about noon.) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, here is your king!"

John 19:42

And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus' body there.

Days » Prophetical, a year

Ezekiel 4:6

"When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days -- I have assigned one day for each year.

Daniel 12:12

Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days.

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

Joel 2:2

It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army -- there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!

Zephaniah 1:15

That day will be a day of God's anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,

Days » A time of festivity called a » Solemn day

Numbers 10:10

"Also in the time when you rejoice, such as on your appointed festivals or at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may become a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God."

Hosea 9:5

So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the Lord?

Days » A time of festivity called a » Good day

Esther 8:17

Throughout every province and throughout every city where the king's edict and his law arrived, the Jews experienced happiness and joy, banquets and holidays. Many of the resident peoples pretended to be Jews, because the fear of the Jews had overcome them.

Esther 9:19

This is why the Jews who are in the rural country -- those who live in rural cities -- set aside the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a holiday for happiness, banqueting, holiday, and sending gifts to one another.

Days » The time for labor

Psalm 104:22

When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep in their dens.

Days » Under the control of God

Amos 5:8

(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth's surface. The Lord is his name!

Amos 8:9

In that day," says the sovereign Lord, "I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.

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

Lamentations 2:21

(Sin/Shin) The young boys and old men lie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; you slaughtered them without mercy.

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

Days » Six working days ordained

Ezekiel 46:1

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will 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

Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night. I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

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 time when you rejoice, such as on your appointed festivals or at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may become a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God."

Days » Artificial, divided into » Decline of

Judges 19:8-9

He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl's father said, "Get some energy. Wait until later in the day to leave!" So they ate a meal together. When the man got ready to leave with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Look! The day is almost over! Stay another night! Since the day is over, stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home."

Days » Illustrative of » The path of the just

Days » Time of, ascertained by the dial

2 Kings 20:11

Isaiah the prophet called out to the Lord, and the Lord made the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs 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

For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins and worshiping the LORD their God.

Days » Wild beasts hide during

Psalm 104:22

When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep in their dens.

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

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

Psalm 110:3

Your people willingly follow you when you go into battle. On the holy hills at sunrise the dew of your youth belongs to you.

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

2 Kings 7:9

Then they said to one another, "It's not right what we're doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven't told anyone. If we wait until dawn, we'll be punished. So come on, let's go and inform the royal palace."

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

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."

Days » Proclaims the glory of God

Psalm 19:2

Day after day it speaks out; night after night it reveals his greatness.

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 evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God's wrath?

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

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a thorn; the most godly among them are more dangerous than a row of thorn bushes. The day you try to avoid by posting watchmen -- your appointed time of punishment -- is on the way, and then you will experience confusion.

Days » Divided into twelve hours

John 11:9

Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, 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 to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Mount of Olives (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 indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up," says the Lord who rules over all. "It will not leave even a root or branch.

Jude 1:6

You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

Revelation 6:17

because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?"

Lord's » Days » Doings, the

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon, to accomplish his work, his peculiar work, to perform his task, his strange task.

Genesis 24:50

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, "This is the Lord's doing. Our wishes are of no concern.

1 Samuel 3:11

The Lord said to Samuel, "Look! I am about to do something in Israel; when anyone hears about it, both of his ears will tingle.

More verses: Psalm 126:3 Isaiah 29:14

Lord's » Days » Supper, the

Mark 14:22

While they were eating, he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take it. This is my body."

1 Corinthians 11:23

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

Lord's » Days » Paul preached at troas

Lord's » Days » Prayer

Matthew 6:9-13

So pray this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored, may your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread, read more.
and forgive us our debts, as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

Luke 11:2-4

So he said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, may your name be honored; may your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And do not lead us into temptation."

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

Luke 24:15

While they were talking and debating these things, Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them

Luke 24:13-14

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.

Lord's » Days » Christ appeared to the disciples

John 20:19

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."

Lord's » Days » Christ appeared to mary

Topics on Days

Dark Days

Job 3:4

That day -- let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

Days, Last

Acts 2:17-18

And in the last days it will be,' God says, 'that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

Eight Days

Luke 9:28

Now about eight days after these sayings, Jesus took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up the mountain to pray.

Four Or Five Days

Judges 11:40

Every year Israelite women commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days.

Last Days

Isaiah 2:2-4

In the future the mountain of the Lord's temple will endure as the most important of mountains, and will be the most prominent of hills. All the nations will stream to it,

No Work On Feast Days

Exodus 20:10

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.

Seven Days

Exodus 12:15

For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Surely on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.

Seven Days For Legal Purposes

Exodus 22:30

You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

Several Days

Exodus 21:21

However, if the injured servant survives one or two days, the owner will not be punished, for he has suffered the loss.

Six Days

Genesis 1:1-31

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Ten Or More Days

Genesis 24:55

But Rebekah's brother and her mother replied, "Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go."

The Final Days Of Time

Acts 2:17-18

And in the last days it will be,' God says, 'that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

Three Days

Genesis 30:36

Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban's flocks.

Two Days

Exodus 16:29

See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

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