10 Bible Verses about Diligence, Examples Of

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

These were more ingenuous than those at Thessalonica; for they received the word with all readiness of mind, searching the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

and we labour working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless: when persecuted, we bear it: when defamed, we intreat.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

For ye remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for working night and day, that we might not be burthensome to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished my race, I have kept the faith.

he that distributeth, let him do it with integrity: he that presideth, with diligence: he that sheweth mercy, with chearfulness.

And this they did not merely as we hoped, but first gave themselves unto the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

And we entreat you, brethren, to respect those that labour among you, and preside over you in the Lord, and instruct you;

And it came to pass, as the days were almost fulfilled of his being received up again into heaven, that He set his face to go to Jerusalem,