Lateness

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. — read the full passage →

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. — read the full passage →

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. — read the full passage →

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? — read the full passage →

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes. — read the full passage →

For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God. — read the full passage →

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. — read the full passage →

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

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. — read the full passage →

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. — read the full passage →

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Everyone went to his own house, — read the full passage →

He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens. — read the full passage →

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth. — read the full passage →

The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. — read the full passage →

“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. — read the full passage →

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. — read the full passage →

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. — read the full passage →

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. — read the full passage →

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. — read the full passage →

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; — read the full passage →

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’ — read the full passage →

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ — read the full passage →

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able. — read the full passage →

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’ — read the full passage →

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season? — read the full passage →

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure. — read the full passage →

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. — read the full passage →

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven forever.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. — read the full passage →

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