Bible Verses About Procrastination

but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

But the wise answered, saying, ‘What if there isn’t enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’

But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

But Yeshua said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”

Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

But Yeshua said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my works for forty years.

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways;’

as I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’”

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;