6 Bible Verses about Wasting Time

making the most of your time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.

He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but rather must labor, doing useful work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with those in need.

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Yet you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.