Bible verses about "excuses" | Worsley

⁹ The Lord is not slow as to his promise (as some count it slowness) but is long-suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

²¹ But another of his disciples, whom he ordered to follow Him, said unto Him, Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father:

¹ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art, that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost the same things. ² But we know that the judgement of God is according to truth against those that do such things. ³ And thinkest thou, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgement of God? ⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? ⁵ But by thy hardness and impenitence of heart thou art treasuring up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgement of God, ⁶ who will render to every one according to his works: ⁷ to them, who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, and honor, and immortality, eternal life: ⁸ but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath. ⁹ Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every soul of man that worketh evil, both of the Jew, and of the Gentile: ¹⁰ but glory, and honor, and peace to every one that worketh good, both to the Jew, and to the Greek: ¹¹ for there is no respect of persons with God. ¹² For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law; ¹³ (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified: ¹⁴ for when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the duties of the law, these though they have not the law, are a law to themselves, ¹⁵ and shew the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience witnessing together with it, and their own thoughts either accusing, or excusing them,) ¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. ¹⁷ Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God, ¹⁸ and knowest his will, and approvest things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, ¹⁹ and art persuaded that thou art a guide of the blind, ²⁰ a light to them that are in the darkness, an instructor of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth which is in the law. ²¹ Thou then, who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou, that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? ²² Thou, that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou, that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? ²³ Thou, that boastest in the law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God? ²⁴ for through you the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written. ²⁵ For circumcision indeed is profitable, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision. ²⁶ Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteous precepts of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted to him for circumcision? ²⁷ and shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? for he is not a Jew, who is only so in appearance; ²⁸ nor is that circumcision, which is only in appearance, in the flesh; ²⁹ but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit, not in the letter: whose praise is not from men, but from God.

²⁰ Inasmuch as from the first creation of the world, the invisible things of Him, even his eternal power and Godhead, are, if attended to, clearly seen in his works:

¹ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art, that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost the same things.

⁵⁹ And He said to another, Follow me: but he said, Lord, permit me to go first and bury my father: ⁶⁰ but Jesus said unto him, Leave the dead to bury their dead; but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. ⁶¹ And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee, but allow me first to go and take my leave of my family. ⁶² But Jesus said unto him, No one, that hath put his hand to the plough and looketh back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

¹⁸ And they all with one consent began to make excuses; the first said, I have bought a field, and I must go and see it, pray have me excused. ¹⁹ And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and am going to try them, pray have me excused. ²⁰ And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.