33 Bible Verses about diligence
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And the man Jeroboam mighty of strength: and Solomon will see the boy that he did work, and he will appoint him for the burden of the house of Joseph.
And they doing the work will work, and healing will go up to the work by their hand, and they will cause the house of God to stand upon its measure, and they will make it firm.
To be known to the king that we went to the Judah province, to the house of the great God; and it was building with stone of rolling, and wood being set up in the walls; and this work being diligently done, and prospering in their hands.
And God who shall cause his name to dwell there shall cast down every king and people that shall send forth his hand to change, to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius set up a decree; it shall be done speedily.
All that from the decree of the God of the heavens shall be done diligently for the house of the God of the heavens: for why to be wrath upon the kingdom of the king and his sons?
From the fruit of the mouth a man shall be satisfied with good: and the reward of the hands of a man shall be good to him.
In all labor will be profit: and the word of the lips only to want
Thus said Jehovah, Restrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for there is a reward to thy work, says Jehovah; and they turned back from the land of the enemy.
And now also complete ye the doing; that as a forwardness to will so also to complete, out of what is possessed.
Let the elders having presided well be deemed worthy of double honour, chiefly they being wearied in word and doctrine.
Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will;
A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
The hand of the active shall give dominion: and of the slothful one shall be for tribute.
The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat
For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.
Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.
Bestow diligent care upon these things; be in them; that thy progress may be manifest in all things. Take heed to thyself, and to the doctrine; remain in them: for doing this, and thou shalt save thyself, and them hearing thee.
Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:
Watching, ye shall watch the commands of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his laws that he commanded thee.
And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.
Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.
Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons.
I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.
And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:
Wherefore, dearly beloved, expecting these, be earnest, spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace.
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Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
In the morning sow thy seed, and at evening thou shalt not let thy hand rest: for thou shalt not know whether this shall be right, this or that, or if they two as one being good.
Knowing, thou shalt know the face of thy flock; set thy heart to thy herds. For not strength forever, and not consecration to generation and generation. The grass was uncovered and the young herbage was seen; and the green plants of the mountains were gathered. read more.
Lambs for thy clothing, and the he goats the price of the field. And enough of goats' milk for thy bread, and for the bread of thy house, and the life of thy girls.
Business life » Business virtues » Diligence
Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.
And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:
A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat
Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:
natural Death » Motive » Diligence
I must work the works of him having sent me, while it is day: night comes, when none can work.
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
Diligence » Spiritual
Say ye not, That there is yet the fourth month, and harvest comes? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and behold the countries; for they are already white for harvest.
For I myself was praying to be anathema from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Diligence » Business
Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.
And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:
A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat
Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:
Diligence » Being diligent
Wherefore, dearly beloved, expecting these, be earnest, spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace.
Knowing, thou shalt know the face of thy flock; set thy heart to thy herds. For not strength forever, and not consecration to generation and generation.
And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end: That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsnffering.
Diligence » The diligent
A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat
The hand of the active shall give dominion: and of the slothful one shall be for tribute.
Sawest thou a man apt in his works? Before kings shall he stand; he shall not stand before the dark ones
Diligence » Required by God in » Obeying him
Watching, ye shall watch the commands of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his laws that he commanded thee.
And it was if hearing, ye shall hear to the commands which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Diligence » Required by God in » Instructing children
And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up.
And teach them to your sons to speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up
Diligence » Required by God in » Lawful business
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
Diligence » Required by God in » Seeking him
And without faith it is impossible to please: for he approaching to God must believe that he is, and is a remunerator to them seeking him out.
Now ye shall give your heart and your soul to seek to Jehovah your God; and arise ye and build the holy place of Jehovah God to bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and the holy vessels of God, to the house being built to the name of Jehovah.
Diligence » God rewards
And without faith it is impossible to please: for he approaching to God must believe that he is, and is a remunerator to them seeking him out.
And I gave the rain of your land in its time, the early and the latter rain; and gather thy grain and thy new wine and thy new oil.
Diligence » In temporal matters, leads to » Honor
The hand of the active shall give dominion: and of the slothful one shall be for tribute.
Sawest thou a man apt in his works? Before kings shall he stand; he shall not stand before the dark ones
Diligence » In temporal matters, leads to » Prosperity
A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat
Diligence » Required by God in » Teaching religion
Dearly beloved, making all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, beseeching to fight for the faith once delivered to the holy ones.
Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsnffering and teaching.
Diligence » Christ, an example
And he said to them, For what have ye sought me ? knew ye not that among the things of my Father I must be ?
And early, having risen far in the night, he went out, and departed into a deserted place, and there prayed.
Diligence » In the service of God » Is not in vain
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.
Diligence » Required by God in » Striving after perfection
Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.
Diligence » Exemplified » Paul
For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God.
Diligence » Required by God in seeking him
And without faith it is impossible to please: for he approaching to God must believe that he is, and is a remunerator to them seeking him out.
Now ye shall give your heart and your soul to seek to Jehovah your God; and arise ye and build the holy place of Jehovah God to bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and the holy vessels of God, to the house being built to the name of Jehovah.
Diligence » Exemplified » hezekiah
And in all the work which he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and in the command to seek to his God, with all his heart he did, and prospered.
Diligence » Exemplified » Titus
And we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things being earnest many times, and now much more earnest, with much confidence in you.
Diligence » Required by God in » Discharging official duties
And the judges sought out diligently; and behold, a witness of falsehood, the witness of falsehood testified against his brother;
Diligence » Preserving "the faith" through teaching
Dearly beloved, making all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, beseeching to fight for the faith once delivered to the holy ones.
Proclaim the word; keep fixed seasonably, and unseasonably; refute, censure, beseech, in all longsnffering and teaching.
Diligence » Lawful business
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
Diligence » Saints should abound in
But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace.
Diligence » Jesus an example of
And he said to them, For what have ye sought me ? knew ye not that among the things of my Father I must be ?
And early, having risen far in the night, he went out, and departed into a deserted place, and there prayed.
Diligence » Required by God in » Keeping the soul
Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons.
Diligence » Required by God in » Labors of love
For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving. And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end: That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsnffering.
Diligence » Required in the service of God
I must work the works of him having sent me, while it is day: night comes, when none can work.
And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.
Diligence » Honor
The hand of the active shall give dominion: and of the slothful one shall be for tribute.
Sawest thou a man apt in his works? Before kings shall he stand; he shall not stand before the dark ones
Diligence » In temporal matters, leads to » Favor
He seeking good shall strive after acceptance: and he seeking evil, it shall come to him.
Diligence » Required by God in » Following every good work
Testified of in good works; if she have brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the holy, if she relieved the pressed, if she followed every good work.
Diligence » Obeying him
Watching, ye shall watch the commands of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his laws that he commanded thee.
And it was if hearing, ye shall hear to the commands which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Diligence » Illustrated
Go to the ant, thou slothful one; see her ways, and be wise: Which no leader to her, scribe and ruler; She will prepare in summer her bread, gathering her food in harvest.
Diligence » In the service of God » Should be preserved in
And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.
Diligence » Required by God in » Guarding against defilement
Observing narrowly lest any be failing of the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing forth aloft give trouble, and by this many be defiled;
Diligence » Required by God in » Keeping the heart
Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.
Diligence » Exemplified » jacob
I was in the day, the drought consumed me, and cold in the night, and sleep will flee away from mine eyes.
Diligence » Instructing children
And sharpen them to thy sons, and speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down and in thy rising up.
And teach them to your sons to speak in them in thy resting in thy house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up
Diligence » Prosperity
A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat
Diligence » In the service of God » Leads to assured hope
And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:
Diligence » In the service of God » Preserves from evil
And he will say, If hearkening thou wilt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt do the right in his eyes, and give ear to his commands, and watch all his laws, every disease which I put upon Egypt I will not put upon thee: for I am Jehovah healing thee.
Diligence » Required by God in » Making our call, &c, sure
Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:
Diligence » Required by God in » Seeking to be found spotless
Wherefore, dearly beloved, expecting these, be earnest, spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace.
Diligence » Exemplified » Psalmist
Diligence » Required by God in » Cultivating Christian graces
And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge;
Diligence » Required by God in » Hearkening to him
Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.
Diligence » Striving after perfection
Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.
Diligence » Labors of love
For God is not unjust to forget your work and fatigue of love, which ye showed to his name, having served to the holy ones, and serving. And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end: That ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them inheriting the promises by faith and longsnffering.
Diligence » Required by God in » Self-examination
I will remember my stringed instruments in the night: I shall meditate with my heart, and my spirit will search out.
Diligence » Exemplified » Apollos
He was instructed in the way of the Lord; and boiling up in the spirit, he spake and taught attentively the things of the Lord, knowing only the immersion of John.
Diligence » Exemplified » Apostles
And every day in the temple, and at the house, they ceased not teaching and announcing the good news, Jesus the Christ.
Diligence » Exemplified » Ruth
And she will gather in the field till the evening, and she will beat out what she gathered, and it will be about an ephah of barley.
Diligence » Figurative » hezekiah
And in all the work which he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and in the command to seek to his God, with all his heart he did, and prospered.
Diligence » Figurative » Psalmist
Diligence » Guarding against defilement
Observing narrowly lest any be failing of the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing forth aloft give trouble, and by this many be defiled;
Diligence » Is not in vain
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stable, unmoved, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that our fatigue is not in vain in the Lord.
Diligence » Figurative » Onesiphorus
Diligence » Figurative » Apollos
He was instructed in the way of the Lord; and boiling up in the spirit, he spake and taught attentively the things of the Lord, knowing only the immersion of John.
Diligence » Figurative » Titus
And we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things being earnest many times, and now much more earnest, with much confidence in you.
Diligence » In temporal matters leads to favor
He seeking good shall strive after acceptance: and he seeking evil, it shall come to him.
Diligence » Making our calling sure
Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:
Diligence » Listening to him
Wherefore will ye weigh silver without bread? and your labour not for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me, and eat good, and your soul shall delight in fatness.
Diligence » Seeking to be found spotless
Wherefore, dearly beloved, expecting these, be earnest, spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace.
Diligence » Discharging official duties
And the judges sought out diligently; and behold, a witness of falsehood, the witness of falsehood testified against his brother;
Diligence » Following every good work
And let these also first be tried; then let them perform the office of footman, being blameless.
Diligence » Leads to assured hope
And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:
Diligence » Preserves from evil
And he will say, If hearkening thou wilt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt do the right in his eyes, and give ear to his commands, and watch all his laws, every disease which I put upon Egypt I will not put upon thee: for I am Jehovah healing thee.
Diligence » Figurative
Go to the ant, thou slothful one; see her ways, and be wise: Which no leader to her, scribe and ruler; She will prepare in summer her bread, gathering her food in harvest.
Diligence » Figurative » Exemplified » Ruth
And she will gather in the field till the evening, and she will beat out what she gathered, and it will be about an ephah of barley.
Diligence » Figurative » Apostles
And every day in the temple, and at the house, they ceased not teaching and announcing the good news, Jesus the Christ.
Diligence » Figurative » Paul
For ye remember, brethren, our fatigue and toil: for also working night and day, not to overload any of you, we proclaimed to you the good news of God.
Diligence » Cultivating proper behaviors of a true Christian
And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge;
Diligence » Keeping the heart
Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.
Diligence » Self-examination
I will remember my stringed instruments in the night: I shall meditate with my heart, and my spirit will search out.
Diligence » Figurative » Nehemiah and his helpers
And we shall build the wall; and all the wall will be completed even to its half: and a heart will be to the people to work.
Diligence » Keeping the soul
Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons.
Nehemiah » Diligence
And I shall send messengers to them, saying, I do a great work, and I shall not be able to come down: wherefore shall the work cease when I shall desist and come down to you?
And we doing in the work: and half of them holding fast upon the spears from the ascending of the dawn even till the coming forth of the stars. Also in that time I said to the people, A man and his youth shall lodge in the midst of Jerusalem; and they were watching for us in the night, and work in the day. And not I and my brethren and my young men, and the men of the watch which were after me, we not putting off our garments; a man his weapon for water.
the Reward of saints » The prospect of, should lead to » Diligence
Look to yourselves, lest we should destroy what things we have wrought, but we should receive a full reward.
Virtues » Business » Diligence
Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.
And we desire each of you to show the same earnestness to the complete certainty of hope to the end:
A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat
Wherefore rather, brethren, be earnest to have your calling and selection made firm: for doing these, ye should not once stumble:
Topics on Diligence
Diligence And Laziness Contrasted
Proverbs 10:4A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
Diligence, Examples Of
2 Chronicles 15:15And all Judah will rejoice at the oath: for with all their heart they sware, and with all their desire they sought him, and he will be found to them: and Jehovah will give rest to them from round about.
Diligence, Objects Of
Deuteronomy 4:9Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons.
Diligence, Results Of
Proverbs 10:4A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
Diligence, Rewards Of
Proverbs 10:4A slothful hand makes poverty, and the hand of the active will make rich.
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