Bible Verses About Procrastination

But he dallied, so the men took hold of his hand, his wife's hand and the hands of his two daughters -ADONAI was being merciful to him - and led them, leaving them outside the city.

"You are not to delay offering from your harvest of grain, olive oil or wine. "The firstborn of your sons you are to give to me.

"When you make a vow to ADONAI your God, you are not to delay in fulfilling it, for ADONAI your God will certainly demand it of you, and your failure to do so will be your sin

"My heart said of you, 'Seek my face.'"Your face, ADONAI, I will seek.

For he is our God, and we are the people in his pasture, the sheep in his care. If only today you would listen to his voice:

"Don't harden your hearts, as you did at M'rivah, as you did on that day at Massah in the desert,

I hurry, I don't delay, to observe your mitzvot.

Don't boast about tomorrow, for you don't know what the day may bring.

If you make a vow to God, don't delay in discharging it. For God takes no pleasure in fools, so discharge your vow!

So remember your creator while you are young, before the evil days come, and the years approach when you will say, "They no longer give me pleasure";

Seek ADONAI while he is available, call on him while he is still nearby.

Give glory to ADONAI your God before the darkness falls, before your feet stumble on the mountains in the twilight, and, while you are seeking light, he turns it into deathlike shadows and makes it completely dark.

He said to me, "Human being, these are the men who make evil plans and give wicked advice in this city.

They say, 'The time hasn't come to build houses. This city is the cooking pot, and we're the meat!'

"Human being, don't you have this proverb in the land of Isra'el, 'Time keeps passing, and none of the visions are fulfilled'?

"Human being, look! People from the house of Isra'el are saying, 'The vision he sees concerns the distant future; he is prophesying about a time far off.'

Therefore, say to them that Adonai ELOHIM says, 'None of my words will be delayed any more, but the word that I speak will be accomplished,' says Adonai ELOHIM."

If someone sues you, come to terms with him quickly, while you and he are on the way to court; or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer of the court, and you may be thrown in jail!

Another of the talmidim said to him, "Sir, first let me go and bury my father."

But if that servant is wicked and says to himself, `My master is taking his time';

and he starts beating up his fellow servants and spends his time eating and drinking with drunkards;

then his master will come on a day the servant does not expect, at a time he doesn't know;

and he will cut him in two and put him with the hypocrites, where people will wail and grind their teeth!

Five of them were foolish and five were sensible.

The foolish ones took lamps with them but no oil,