Bible Verses About Procrastination

Instead, keep exhorting each other every day, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you will become hardened by the deceit of sin.

For we have become sharers in the Messiah, provided, however, that we hold firmly to the conviction we began with, right through until the goal is reached.

Now where it says, “Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t harden your hearts, as you did in the Bitter Quarrel,”

who were the people who, after they heard, quarreled so bitterly? All those whom Moshe brought out of Egypt.

And with whom was God disgusted for forty years? Those who sinned — yes, they fell dead in the Wilderness!

And to whom was it that he swore that they would not enter his rest? Those who were disobedient.

So we see that they were unable to enter because of lack of trust.

Therefore, let us be terrified of the possibility that, even though the promise of entering his rest remains, any one of you might be judged to have fallen short of it;

for Good News has also been proclaimed to us, just as it was to them. But the message they heard didn’t do them any good, because those who heard it did not combine it with trust.

For it is we who have trusted who enter the rest. It is just as he said, “And in my anger, I swore that they would not enter my rest.” He swore this even though his works have been in existence since the founding of the universe.

For there is a place where it is said, concerning the seventh day, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”

And once more, our present text says, “They will not enter my rest.”

Therefore, since it still remains for some to enter it, and those who received the Good News earlier did not enter,

he again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David, so long afterwards, in the text already given, “Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t harden your hearts.”