18 Bible Verses about Right Time For People

Joy is to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season -- how good!

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;

and concerning Apollos our brother, much I did entreat him that he may come unto you with the brethren, and it was not at all his will that he may come now, and he will come when he may find convenient.

And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity;

and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, 'For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

and from that time he was seeking a convenient season to deliver him up.

and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.

and he agreed, and was seeking a favourable season to deliver him up to them without tumult.

And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee,

They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt is a desolation, Passed by hath the appointed time.

and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

Is it time for you -- you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

Jesus, therefore, saith to them, 'My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready;

And Jacob saith unto Laban, 'Give up my wife, for my days have been fulfilled, and I go in unto her;'

Happy art thou, O land, When thy king is a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.

but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?'