Bible Verses about Opportunity
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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff
on 06/07/2018
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For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel—not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
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Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
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The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
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He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
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Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
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And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’
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Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.
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making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
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for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
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You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh ; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
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For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
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If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
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By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.
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If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
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But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.
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As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
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Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
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Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
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Returning the third time, he said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.
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Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
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I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
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This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.
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“Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered, his right eye totally blinded!”
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Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish!
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Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
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Those who walk righteously and speak what is right, who reject gain from extortion and keep their hands from accepting bribes, who stop their ears against plots of murder and shut their eyes against contemplating evil—
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they are the ones who will dwell on the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress. Their bread will be supplied, and water will not fail them.
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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
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not by works, so that no one can boast.
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The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
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idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions
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and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
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Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known. Some were saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”
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Others said, “He is Elijah.” And still others claimed, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of long ago.”
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But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised from the dead!”
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For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married.
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For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
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Praise the LORD.Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.
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Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness.
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Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre,
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praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe,
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praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.
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Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.
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Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,
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making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
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Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
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Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,
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speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord,
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always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers.
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But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months.
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And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
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They are “the two olive trees” and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.”
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If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.
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They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
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Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them.
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Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.
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For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.
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The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
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But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.
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Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.
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At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
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The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.
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The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”
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And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,
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saying: “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.
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The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small— and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
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Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.
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Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
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So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”
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Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,
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while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”
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Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
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He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.
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The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.”
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So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
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There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
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He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
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The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
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After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.
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When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
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He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
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The LORD said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram.
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Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet.
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Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu.
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Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
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So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him.
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Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,” he said, “and then I will come with you.” “Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?”
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So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.
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When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
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the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
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Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal ; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
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The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
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The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
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So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”
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But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
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This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
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Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
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Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.
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God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
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So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
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So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
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This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
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Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
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I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
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But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
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You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
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Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
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You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
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Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
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Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was Jewish and a believer but whose father was a Greek.
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The believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.
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Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
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As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.
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So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
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Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.
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When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.
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So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas.
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During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
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After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
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From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, and the next day we went on to Neapolis.
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From there we traveled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.
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On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.
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One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.
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When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
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Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.
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She followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved.”
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She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” At that moment the spirit left her.
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When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.
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They brought them before the magistrates and said, “These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar
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by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice.”
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The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods.
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After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully.
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When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
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About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
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Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.
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The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped.
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But Paul shouted, “Don’t harm yourself! We are all here!”
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The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.
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He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
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They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”
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Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house.
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At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized.
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The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole household.
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When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: “Release those men.”
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The jailer told Paul, “The magistrates have ordered that you and Silas be released. Now you can leave. Go in peace.”
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But Paul said to the officers: “They beat us publicly without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. And now do they want to get rid of us quietly? No! Let them come themselves and escort us out.”
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The officers reported this to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were alarmed.
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They came to appease them and escorted them from the prison, requesting them to leave the city.
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After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia’s house, where they met with the brothers and sisters and encouraged them. Then they left.