Bible Verses About Excuses

Aren't Amanah and Parpar, the rivers of Dammesek, better than all the water in Isra'el? Why can't I bathe in them and be clean?" So he turned and went off in a rage.

But his servants approached him and said, "My father! If the prophet had asked you to do something really difficult, wouldn't you have done it? So, doesn't it make even more sense to do what he says, when it's only, 'Bathe, and be clean'?"

So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Yarden, as the man of God had said to do; and his skin was restored and became like the skin of a child; and he became clean.

Here is the word of ADONAI that came to me:

"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I separated you for myself. I have appointed you to be a prophet to the nations."

I said, "Oh, Adonai ELOHIM, I don't even know how to speak! I'm just a child!"

But ADONAI said to me, "Don't say, 'I'm just a child.' "For you will go to whomever I send you, and you will speak whatever I order you.

Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you, says ADONAI, to rescue you."

Then ADONAI put out his hand and touched my mouth, and ADONAI said to me, "There! I have put my words in your mouth.

Today I have placed you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant."

To another he said, “Follow me!” but the man replied, “Sir, first let me go away and bury my father.”

Yeshua said, “Let the dead bury their own dead; you, go and proclaim the Kingdom of God!”

Yet another said, “I will follow you, sir, but first let me say good-by to the people at home.”

To him Yeshua said, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and keeps looking back is fit to serve in the Kingdom of God.”

But they responded with a chorus of excuses. The first said to him, ‘I’ve just bought a field, and I have to go out and see it. Please accept my apologies.’

Another said, ‘I’ve just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to test them out. Please accept my apologies.’

Still another said, ‘I have just gotten married, so I can’t come.’