redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Parallel translations
- WEB redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
- KJV Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
- NKJV redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
- NASB making the most of your time, because the days are evil.
- NLT Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.
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Quick answer
Wise living makes the most of every opportunity because the days are evil. Time is precious and should be used well for good.
Overview
Paul explains wise walking as 'redeeming the time,' buying up every opportunity for good. The urgency arises 'because the days are evil,' marked by opposition and limited time. Believers are called to be intentional and purposeful, using their fleeting days in service to the Lord.
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- Col 4:5Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
- Amos 5:13Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
- John 12:35Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
- Eccl 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
- Eph 6:13Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand.
- Gal 6:10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to the family of faith.
- Rom 13:11And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
- Eccl 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Ps 37:19In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.
- 1 Cor 7:26Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
- Gal 1:4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
- 1 Cor 7:29–31What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
- Acts 11:28–29One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
- Eph 6:15and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace.
- Eccl 11:2Divide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.
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