Bible Verses About Procrastination

But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.

You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.

If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.

For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?

“Son of man, take note that the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many years from now; he prophesies about the distant future.’

Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘None of My words will be delayed any longer. The message I speak will be fulfilled, declares the Lord GOD.’”

Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.

Another of His disciples requested, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’

And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.

The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate.

Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take along any extra oil.