17 Bible Verses about Urgency

and saying: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

And do this, because you know the time, that the hour has already come when we should awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed:

He that testifies these things, says: Surely, I. come quickly. Amen: come, Lord Jesus.

and saying: The time has fully come, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe the gospel.

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

I tell you, No; but unless you repent, you shall all likewise perish.

And Peter said to them: Repent, and be immersed, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Repent, therefore, and turn, in order that your sins may be blotted out, so that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

bearing full testimony both to Jews and to Greeks, of the repentance that leads to God, and of the faith that leads to our Lord Jesus Christ.

but announced first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.

I charge you, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom, preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching.

Do you not say, There are yet four months, and harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are already white for the harvest. And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal; that he that sows, and he that reaps, may rejoice together. For in this is the saying true, One sows and another reaps.

(for he says: I have heard thee in an acceptable time, and in the day of salvation I have helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation:)

for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night:

I come quickly: hold fast that which you have, that no one take your crown.

Blessed is he that reads, and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it; for the time is at hand.

Therefore said I to you, that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am, He, you shall die in your sins.