Bible Verses About Procrastination

whereas the others took flasks of oil with their lamps.

Now the bridegroom was late, so they all went to sleep.

It was the middle of the night when the cry rang out, `The bridegroom is here! Go out to meet him!'

The girls all woke up and prepared their lamps for lighting.

The foolish ones said to the sensible ones, `Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.'

`No,' they replied, `there may not be enough for both you and us. Go to the oil dealers and buy some for yourselves.'

But as they were going off to buy, the bridegroom came. Those who were ready went with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

Later, the other bridesmaids came. `Sir! Sir!' they cried, `Let us in!'

But he answered, `Indeed! I tell you, I don't know you!'

So stay alert, because you know neither the day nor the hour.

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.”

once the owner of the house has gotten up and shut the door. You will stand outside, knocking at the door and saying, ‘Lord! Open up for us!’ But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from!’

But when Sha’ul began to discuss righteousness, self-control and the coming Judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “For the time being, go away! I will send for you when I get a chance.”

For he says, “At the acceptable time I heard you; in the day of salvation I helped you.”

because you yourselves well know that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

When people are saying, “Everything is so peaceful and secure,” then destruction will suddenly come upon them, the way labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there is no way they will escape.

Therefore, as the Ruach HaKodesh says, “Today, if you hear God’s voice,

don’t harden your hearts, as you did in the Bitter Quarrel on that day in the Wilderness when you put God to the test.

Yes, your fathers put me to the test; they challenged me, and they saw my work for forty years!

Therefore, I was disgusted with that generation — I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, they have not understood how I do things’;

in my anger, I swore that they would not enter my rest.”

Watch out, brothers, so that there will not be in any one of you an evil heart lacking trust, which could lead you to apostatize from the living God!