Bible verses about "punctuality" | Leeser

¹ A good name is better than precious oil, and the day of death, better than the day of one’s birth.

⁴ Because it is winter’s cold, will the sluggard not plough: when he therefore seeketh in the harvest time, there will be nothing.

¹ For every thing there is a season; and a proper time is for every pursuit under the heavens. ² There is a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what hath been planted; ³ A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; ⁴ A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; ⁵ A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather up stones; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embracing; ⁶ A time to seek, and a time to let things be lost; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; ⁷ A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; ⁸ A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. ⁹ What profit hath now he that worketh in that wherein he toileth? ¹⁰ I have seen the employment, which God hath given to the sons of men to busy themselves therewith. ¹¹ Every thing hath he made beautiful in its proper time: he hath also placed the eternity in their heart, without a man’s being able to find out the work that God hath made from the beginning to the end.

²⁷ The indolent roasteth not that which he hath caught in hunting; but the most precious wealth of man is diligence.