11 Bible Verses about Lateness
Most Relevant Verses
It is vain to work hard for the food you eat by getting up early and going to bed late. Jehovah gives food to those he loves while they sleep.
How horrible it will be for those who get up early in the morning to look for a drink and who sit up late at night until they are drunk from wine.
Late in the day his disciples approached him. They said: The day is almost over and we are in a secluded place.
He entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. When evening came he went with the twelve to Bethany.'
I will send rain on your land at the proper time, both in the fall and in the spring. You will gather your own grain, new wine, and olive oil.
They do not say in their hearts, to themselves: 'We should respect Jehovah our God. He sends rain at the right time, the autumn rain and the spring rain. He makes sure that we have harvest seasons.'
Let us get to know Jehovah! Let us press on (run after) (follow) to get to know him. As surely as the sun rises he will appear. He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.
Be glad you children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God! For he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes it to rain, the early rain and the latter rain, in the first month.
How long will you sleep, O lazy person? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest. Your poverty comes like a traveler. Your need comes like an armed man.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. Your poverty will come like a robber and your want like an armed man.