Bible Verses about “wasting”
The Bible contains 37 verses about wasting across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,”
“redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.”
“Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”
“"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'”
“You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.”
“"But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.”
“To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.”
“So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
“Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.”
“"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'”
“"He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.”
“I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.'”
“In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.”
“"He also who got the two talents came and said, 'Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.'”
“Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'”
“For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away.”
“"For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.”
“Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.”
“But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.”
“"Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.”
“He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.'”
“When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."”
“a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;”
“so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.”
“I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;”
“Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.”
“Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:”
“Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.”
“So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.”
“When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world."”
“"'When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.”
“You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.”
“But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?”
“As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.”