Bible Verses About Procrastination

and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps.

`And the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and were sleeping,

and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him.

`Then rose all those virgins, and trimmed their lamps,

and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

and the prudent answered, saying--Lest there may not be sufficient for us and you, go ye rather unto those selling, and buy for yourselves.

`And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut;

and afterwards come also do the rest of the virgins, saying, Sir, sir, open to us;

and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you.

`Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.

And he said unto another, `Be following me;' and he said, `Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;'

and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'

And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;'

and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,

and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now is a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --

for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear--

ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--!')

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,