18 Bible Verses about Right Time For People
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So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
But concerning Apollos our brother, I encouraged him greatly to come to you with the brethren; and it was not at all his desire to come now, but he will come when he has opportunity.
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned before, but you lacked opportunity.
But as he was discussing righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come, Felix became frightened and said, “Go away for the present, and when I find time I will summon you.”
They were glad when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.
So he consented, and began seeking a good opportunity to betray Him to them apart from the crowd.
A strategic day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his lords and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee;
“They cried there, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a big noise;
He has let the appointed time pass by!’
And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.
“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?”
So Jesus *said to them, “My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune.
Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.”
Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time—for strength and not for drunkenness.
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”