24 Bible Verses about Speed

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift. The battle is not to the strong. Bread does not go to the wise, or riches to men of understanding. Men of skill do not always receive favor, but time and unexpected circumstance happens to them all.

Flight will perish from the swift! The strong will not increase his strength. The mighty will not save himself.

Jehovah said to me: Take a large writing tablet, and write on it with a pen: Maher Shalal Hash Baz (The Looting Will Come Quickly; the Prey Will Be Easy).

I slept with the prophetess. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Jehovah told me: Name him Maher Shalal Hash Baz.

She had the donkey saddled, and ordered the servant: Make the donkey go as fast as it can. Do not slow down unless I tell you.

The watchman reported: He went up to them and has not come back. The driving is like the driving of Jehu, son of Nimshi, for he is driving violently.

The enemy comes up like clouds. His chariots are like a raging wind. His horses are swifter than eagles. How horable it will be for us! We will be destroyed!

Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven. They drive us before them on the mountains. They wait secretly for us in the wasteland.

Go quickly and tell his disciples he has risen from the dead. See, he goes before you to Galilee. You will see him there, as I have told you. They departed quickly from the tomb, with fear and great joy. They ran to bring his disciples the news.

As I observed a he-goat came from the west over the face of the whole earth. It did not touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

What are you to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you pay recompense (compensation) to me? If you pay recompense to me swiftly and speedily, will I return your recompense upon your own head?

There is the noise of the whip and the sound of the rattling wheel; the sound of the dashing horse and the bounding chariot.

The horseman is mounting. There is the flashing sword and the glittering spear! The multitudes of slain ones produce a great heap of corpses. There is no end of the bodies! They stumble upon their bodies.

The chariots wildly race through the streets. They rush to and fro in the broad ways. They look like torches and they run like lightning.

Their horses are swifter than leopards. They are fiercer than the evening wolves. Their horsemen proudly press on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle in a hurry to eat.

Jehovah raises up a flag for the nations far away. With a whistle he signals those at the ends of the earth. Look, they are coming very quickly!

Moab's doom approaches. Its ruin is coming soon.

You have said: No, we will flee on horses. So you flee. You added: We will ride on fast horses. So those who chase you will also be fast.

When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and his rider.

I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Mary got up quickly and went to him.

The Jews were with her in the house, consoling her. They saw Mary get up quickly and leave. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

You know this, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.