12 Bible Verses about Diligence, Rewards Of

Poor is he who is working -- a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

The hand of the diligent ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary.

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want.

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you, that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own. May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy is the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,

for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;