20 Bible Verses about Urgency

and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near!"

And [do] this [because you] know the time, that [it is] already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation [is] nearer now than when we believed.

The one who testifies about these [things] says, "Yes, I am coming quickly!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!

and saying, "The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe in the gospel!"

From that time [on], Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, because the kingdom of heaven is near."

No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well!

And Peter [said] to them, "Repent and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out,

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks with respect to repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

but to those in Damascus first, and in Jerusalem and all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, I proclaimed [that they should] repent and turn to God, doing deeds worthy of repentance.

I solemnly charge [you] before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom, preach the word, be ready in season [and] out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all patience and instruction.

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. For in this [instance] the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.'

For he says, "At the acceptable time I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now [is] the acceptable time; behold, now [is] the day of salvation!

for [you] yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the [same] way as a thief in the night.

And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not urgently send to meet with you? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to honor you?"

David asked Ahimelech, "Is there not {at your disposal} a spear or a sword? For I took neither my sword nor my weapons with me because the king's matter was urgent."

{Therefore} {because} the word of the king was severe and the furnace was exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed these men who lifted up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

I am coming quickly! Hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take away your crown.

Blessed [is] the one who reads aloud and [blessed are] those who hear the words of the prophecy and observe the things written in it, because the time [is] near!

Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am [he], you will die in your sins."