10 Bible Verses about Diligence, Examples Of

But that on the good ground are they who having heard the word, retain it in a heart excellent and good, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Now these were more liberally minded men than those of Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness of mind, daily, examining the Scriptures if these things were really so.

and work hard, labouring with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

I have struggled hard in the honourable contest, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:

or he that exhorteth, in exhortation; he that distributes, let him do it with simplicity; he that presideth, with diligence; he that is employed in acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

And not [merely] as we hoped, but gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us according to the will of God.

Now we entreat you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

And it came to pass, as the days hastened to their period when he should be received up [to glory], that he resolutely set his face to go to Jerusalem;