34 Bible Verses about God's Timing

As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.

My times are in thy hand: Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

which in its own times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

Thus saith Jehovah, In an acceptable time have I answered thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages:

(for he saith, At an acceptable time I hearkened unto thee, And in a day of salvation did I succor thee: behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation):

The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.

unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say,

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.

for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him:

A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it!

I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.

The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.

And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening oblation, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, O Jehovah, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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

But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

Thou wilt arise, and have mercy upon Zion; For it is time to have pity upon her, Yea, the set time is come.

and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.

And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.