'Proper' in the Bible
The steward replied, “What you have said is right, but only the one who is found to have it will be my slave, and the rest of you will be blameless.”
For the Lord our God burst out in anger against us because you Levites were not with us the first time, for we didn’t inquire of Him about the proper procedures.”
in order to confirm these days of Purim at their proper time just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and just as they had committed themselves and their descendants to the practices of fasting and lamentation.
A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Blessed are you, land, when your king is a son of noblesand your princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.
This is what the Lord says:I will certainly restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tentsand show compassion on his dwellings.Every city will be rebuilt on its mound;every citadel will stand on its proper site.
“Who then is a faithful and sensible slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give them food at the proper time?
Now listen! You will become silent and unable to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”
The Lord said: “Who then is the faithful and sensible manager his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food at the proper time?
Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but because of what is proper and so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction.
Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.
From Him the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in love by the proper working of each individual part.
But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.
who gave Himself—a ransom for all,a testimony at the proper time.
but with good works, as is proper for women who affirm that they worship God.
Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.
and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling.