Bible Verses About Urgency

But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.

But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.

Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.

And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.

And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.

For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:

And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.

Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.