7 Bible Verses about Diligence, Rewards Of

So be the more eager, brothers, to ratify your calling and election, for as you practise these qualities you will never make a slip;

also, endeavour to live quietly, attend to your own business, and ??as we charged you ??work with your hands, so that your life may be correct in the eyes of the outside world and self-supporting.

Let the thief steal no more; rather let him work and put his hands to an honest task, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.

Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above.

(for once a man enters his rest, he rests from work just as God did). Let us be eager then to enter that Rest, in case anyone falls into the same sort of disobedience.

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what the people provide (for the workman deserves his wages); you are not to shift from one house to another.

God is not unfair; he will not forget what you have done, or the love you have shown for his sake in ministering, as you still do, to the saints.