7 Bible Verses about Diligence, Rewards Of

Wherefore be the more diligent, my brethren, to secure your vocation and election by your virtuous actions, for by so doing, you will never relapse:

to study your own quiet, to mind your own affairs, and follow some handicraft trade, as we recommended it to you: so that your way of life may stand fair to the world, and prevent your being dependent upon any man.

let him that stole, steal no more: but rather let him labour, to encrease his fortune with his own hands, that he may have wherewithal to relieve the needy:

but first seek the kingdom of God, and that righteousness which leads to it, and all these things shall be superadded. be not

then he that enters into divine rest, will indeed rest from his works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any of us by imitating their incredulity, should fall short thereof like them.

continue in the same house, and eat and drink whatever it affords: for a labourer deserves his wages: therefore don't shift from family to family.

for God is too just to his promise not to regard your piety, and the love which you have shewn to the christian religion by the assistance ye have given to the saints, and still continue to give.