Bible Verses about Procrastination
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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff
on 04/14/2018
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But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.
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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
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Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.
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Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
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No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
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Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.
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If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
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As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
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You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
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But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
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Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
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Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.
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A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
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All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
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One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.
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Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.
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Whoever loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and olive oil will never be rich.
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Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
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Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
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So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
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Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,
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making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
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Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
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He said to another man, “Follow me.”But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
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Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
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Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.”
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Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
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I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
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thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.
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I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw:
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
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and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.