Diligence

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them. — read the full passage →

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

The slothful man doesn’t roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.

but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me

Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

and the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter the same, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.

The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all. — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; — read the full passage →

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us. — read the full passage →

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Be diligent to come to me soon,