What Does the Bible Say About Time Travel?

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Psalm 90:4 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 12 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

James 2:1-4:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...

Ecclesiastes 3:11-13 ESV / 11 helpful votes

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.

Romans 8:29-30 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Joshua 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

1 Peter 1:1-2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Galatians 6:5-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For each will have to bear his own load. Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 8 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Daniel 7:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.

Psalm 27:11-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies. Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence. I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

2 Timothy 1:8-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Acts 17:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

Proverbs 8:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

2 Thessalonians 2:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

Ephesians 1:3-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

Galatians 6:5-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For each will have to bear his own load. Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches.

Romans 9:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.

John 8:57-58 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

John 1:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Colossians 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

Ephesians 1:7-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, ...

Galatians 6:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For each will have to bear his own load.

Galatians 6:5-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For each will have to bear his own load. Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Matthew 5:44-45 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Ecclesiastes 3:11-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man. I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

Ecclesiastes 3:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. ...

Proverbs 25:21-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will reward you.

Proverbs 8:1-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. ...

Psalm 91:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Psalm 27:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Psalm 27:12-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence. I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living! Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

3 John 1:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

James 4:2-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 Timothy 1:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

50 Bible Verses about Time Travel

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 90:4 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 1:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 2:1-4:17 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 3:11-13 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:29-30 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 1:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 1:1-2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:5-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:37-39 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 7:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 27:11-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:8-9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 8:27 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:3-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:5-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 9:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:57-58 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:1-3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 1:7-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:5-8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:44-45 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 3:11-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 3:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 25:21-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 8:1-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 91:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 27:13-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 27:12-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

3 John 1:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:2-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 1:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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