Bible verses about "procrastination" | BBE

²⁵ Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

⁴ He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

³⁵ Be ready, dressed as for a journey, with your lights burning.

⁴⁰ So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.

⁴ While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.

²⁰ But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me. ²¹ So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

⁵⁹ And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father. ⁶⁰ But he said to him, Let the dead take care of their dead; it is for you to go and give news of the kingdom of God. ⁶¹ And another man said, I will come with you, Lord, but first let me say a last good-day to those who are at my house. ⁶² But Jesus said, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is good enough for the kingdom of God.

¹⁷ The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

¹ Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

⁴ The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

²⁴ The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.

¹⁵ Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise; ¹⁶ Making good use of the time, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

⁴ The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.