22 Bible Verses about Being In A Hurry

Proverbs 19:2 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 64 helpful votes

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV / 60 helpful votes

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 40 helpful votes

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

2 Peter 3:8-9 ESV / 27 helpful votes

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Hebrews 4:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Mark 1:35 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Exodus 34:21 ESV / 16 helpful votes

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

2 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Mark 2:27 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

John 13:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Hebrews 4:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,

Psalm 70:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay!

Matthew 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.

John 5:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

Matthew 12:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

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