What Does the Bible Say About Efficiency?

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.

Ezra 8:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.”

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 72:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Of Solomon. Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son! May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice! Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness! May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor! May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations! ...

2 Peter 1:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Romans 8:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Proverbs 31:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.

Exodus 18:13-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening. When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?” And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God; when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.” Moses' father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. ...

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 6:1-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 21:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Jeremiah 51:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.

Job 26:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Luke 21:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Matthew 24:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Daniel 2:42-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.

Daniel 2:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:

Jeremiah 51:58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”

Jeremiah 51:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 51:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

Jeremiah 51:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

Isaiah 2:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Job 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

35 Bible Verses about Efficiency

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ezra 8:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 72:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 8:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 18:13-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 6:1-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 21:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 51:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Job 26:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 21:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Daniel 2:42-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Daniel 2:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 51:58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 51:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 51:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 51:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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35 Bible Verses about Efficiency

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 10:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ezra 8:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 72:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:3-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 8:37 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 18:13-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 6:1-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 21:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 51:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Job 26:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 21:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Daniel 2:42-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Daniel 2:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 51:58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 51:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 51:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 51:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 2:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes