Top 25 Bible Verses About Procrastination (NIV)

⁴ The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

¹⁵ Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, ¹⁶ making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. ¹⁷ Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

²⁴ Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

⁴ A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.

¹ Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

¹⁷ Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

⁵⁹ He said to another man, "Follow me." But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God." ⁶¹ Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good bye to my family." ⁶² Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."

¹³ I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

¹¹ 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.

³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

²⁵ An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.

⁴ As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

⁴⁰ You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

³⁵ "Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning,

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

⁴ Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

²³ All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

²⁰ 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. ²¹ So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

⁹ Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

⁴ Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

⁹ One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

² for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

²⁸ Do not say to your neighbor, "Come back later; I'll give it tomorrow"- when you now have it with you.

⁶⁰ I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.

⁴⁰ But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.