Joshua 7:3
and they turn back unto Joshua, and say unto him, 'Let not all the people go up; let about two thousand men, or about three thousand men, go up, and they smite Ai; cause not all the people to labour thither; for they are few.'
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.
Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work.
Luke 13:24
'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
Hebrews 4:11
May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,
Hebrews 6:11-12
and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,
2 Peter 1:5
And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,
2 Peter 1:10
wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,