PROCRASTINATION

Passages on this topic · 55

• Exodus 8:10

  He said, “Tomorrow.” He said, “Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.

• Exodus 22:29

  “You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

• 1 Kings 19:20

  Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”

• 1 Kings 19:21

  He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

• Esther 5:8

  If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”

• Proverbs 27:1

  Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

• Ezekiel 11:2

  He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

• Ezekiel 11:3

  who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’

• Ezekiel 12:22

  “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’

• Ezekiel 12:27

  “Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.’

• Ezekiel 12:28

  “Therefore tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “None of my words shall be deferred any more, but the word which I speak will be performed,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

• Matthew 8:21

  Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

• Matthew 24:48

  But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

• Matthew 24:49

  and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

• Matthew 24:50

  the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn’t know it,

• Matthew 24:51

  and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

• Matthew 25:2

  Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

• Matthew 25:3

  Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

• Matthew 25:4

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

• Matthew 25:5

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

• Matthew 25:6

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

• Matthew 25:7

  Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

• Matthew 25:8

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

• Matthew 25:9

  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.’

• Matthew 25:10

  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.

• Matthew 25:11

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

• Matthew 25:12

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

• Matthew 25:13

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

• Luke 9:59

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

• Luke 9:60

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

• Luke 9:61

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

• Luke 9:62

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

• Acts 24:25

  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.”

• 1 Thessalonians 5:2

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

• 1 Thessalonians 5:3

  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.

• Hebrews 3:7

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

• Hebrews 3:8

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

• Hebrews 3:9

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

• Hebrews 3:10

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

• Hebrews 3:11

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

• Hebrews 3:12

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

• Hebrews 3:13

  but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

• Hebrews 3:14

  For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

• Hebrews 3:15

  while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

• Hebrews 3:16

  For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

• Hebrews 3:17

  With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

• Hebrews 3:18

  To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

• Hebrews 3:19

  We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

• Hebrews 4:1

  Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

• Hebrews 4:2

  For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

• Hebrews 4:3

  For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

• Hebrews 4:4

  For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;

• Hebrews 4:5

  and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.”

• Hebrews 4:6

  Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

• Hebrews 4:7

  he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”