Bible verses about "excuses" | Riverside

⁹ The Lord is not slow about what he has promised, as some think of slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, wishing not to have any perish but to have all come to a change of heart.

²¹ Another of his disciples said to him, "Sir, let me first go and bury my father."

¹ THEREFORE you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge. For in judging another you condemn yourself. For you, the judge, practice the same things. ² But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who practice such things. ³ Do you think, O man, you who judge those who practice such things while you do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God is calling you to a change of heart? ⁵ Are you with a hard and unrepentant heart treasuring for yourself wrath for the day of wrath and for the revelation of the just judgment of God? ⁶ He will give to each an award according to his works. ⁷ To those who by constancy in good work seek for glory and honor and immortality he will award life eternal. ⁸ But to those of a partisan spirit who do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and hot anger. ⁹ Distress and crushing calamity will fall upon every human soul that works evil, upon the Jew first and also upon the Greek. ¹⁰ But glory and honor and peace will come to every one who works good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹¹ For God has no partiality. ¹² As many as have sinned without a law will perish without a law, and as many as have sinned under law will be judged by law ¹³ (for it is not the hearers of law who are righteous before God, but the doers of law are pronounced righteous; ¹⁴ for when Gentiles who have no law do by nature what the Law enjoins, these, although they have no law, are a law to themselves; ¹⁵ they show the requirements of the Law written in their hearts, since their conscience corroborates it and their thoughts argue in mutual accusation or in self-defense), ¹⁶ on the day when God judges the secrets of men through Jesus Christ, as my good news sets forth. ¹⁷ But if you bear the name of Jew and rely upon the Law, and make your boast in God ¹⁸ and know his will and are a judge of things that differ, because you have been taught out of the Law ¹⁹ and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the unwise, a teacher of the simple, because you have the form of knowledge and of truth in the Law — ²¹ you who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal? ²² You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast of the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law? ²⁴ For "The name of God is reviled among the Gentiles because of you," as it is written. ²⁵ Circumcision has value if you obey the Law. But if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ If an uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be credited for circumcision? ²⁷ And the natural uncircumcision if it keeps the Law will judge you who with a written code and circumcision are still a law-breaker. ²⁸ For it is not he who is one outwardly that is a Jew, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. ²⁹ But he who is one secretly is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart and in the spirit, not in the letter. His praise is not from men, but from God.

²⁰ For God's invisible qualities — his everlasting power and deity — are, since the creation of the world, clearly seen, being known from what he has made. So they are without any excuse.

¹ THEREFORE you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge. For in judging another you condemn yourself. For you, the judge, practice the same things.

⁵⁹ He said to another, "Follow me." But he said, "Let me first go and bury my father." ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and announce far and wide the kingdom of God." ⁶¹ Another said, "I will follow you, Sir, but first let me say good-bye to those at my home." ⁶² Jesus said to him, "No one who has put his hand to the plow and is looking backward is fit for the kingdom of God."

¹⁸ But they all began with one mind to make excuse. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field and must go and see it. I beg of you to have me excused.' ¹⁹ Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen and I am going to try them. I beg of you, have me excused.' ²⁰ Another said, 'I have married a wife and on that account I cannot come.'