Thematic Bible: Being diligent

So, beloved, since you are looking forward to these things, be diligent and make every effort to be found by Him [at His return] spotless and blameless, in peace [that is, inwardly calm with a sense of spiritual well-being and confidence, having lived a life of obedience to Him]. Verse ConceptsAmbition, positive aspects ofFaultsethics, and graceBlamelessness, In Christian LivingInnocence, Teaching OnRestored In Jesus ChristPerfection, HumanPurity, Moral And SpiritualSanctification, Means And ResultsBusiness EthicsdiligencePeople Made PerfectSeek PeacePurityDoing Your BestThe Second ComingWorking Hard And Not Being Lazyeffort

Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds; For riches are not forever; does a crown endure to all generations?

But we do [ strongly and earnestly] desire for each of you to show the same diligence and sincerity [all the way through] in realizing and enjoying the full assurance and development of [your] hope until the end, In order that you may not grow disinterested and become [spiritual] sluggards, but imitators, behaving as do those who through faith ( by their leaning of the entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) and by practice of patient endurance and waiting are [now] inheriting the promises.