17 Bible Verses about Urgency
Most Relevant Verses
Carry out these injunctions because you know the crisis that we are in, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.
"The time is now come," he said, "and the kingdom of God is near! Repent and believe the gospel."
From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near."
"Repent," answered Peter, "and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
"Repent then! and reform, from the blotting out of your sins, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;
testifying both to Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
"but I proceeded to preach, first to those in Damascus, and then in Jerusalem and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they must repent and turn to God and do deeds worthy of repentance.
I adjure you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and the dead??y his appearing and his kingdom, I adjure you??2 proclaim the message, be urgent in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, encourage, with never-failing patience and teaching.
Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest. The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. For in this respect the saying is true, 'One sows, another reaps.'
For he said: In an acceptable time have I heard thee, And in the day of salvation have I succored thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time! behold, now is the day of salvation!
You yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.
Blessed is he who reads, and they who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep what is written in it. For the crisis is at hand.
"That is why I said that you would die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."
