Bible Verses about “lateness”
The Bible contains 32 verses about lateness across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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;”
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:”
“redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.”
“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.”
“Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.”
“Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.”
“Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."”
“But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!'”
“"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.”
“Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.”
“Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,”
“but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.”
“Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.”
“Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.”
“The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'”
“But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'”
“While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.”
“Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'”
“But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.'”
“"Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.”
“He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.”
“Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.”
“Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.”
“They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.”
“But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.”
“But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."”
“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.”