7 Bible Verses about Diligence, Rewards Of

Therefore, brothers, be all the more in earnest to make certain to yourselves God's call and choice of you. For if you cultivate these qualities, you will never slip,

also keep up your ambition to live quietly, to practice attending to your own business and to work with your own hands, as we directed you, so that you may live influentially with the outsiders, and not be dependent on anybody.

The man who used to steal must now stop stealing; rather, he must keep on working and toiling with his own hands at some honest vocation, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

For whoever is admitted into God's rest himself has rested from his works, just as God did. So let us do our best to be admitted to that rest, so that not one of us may fail through the same sort of disobedience.

Stay on at the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the workman deserves his support. Do not keep moving about from house to house.

For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have shown His name in the service you have rendered for your fellow-Christians, and still are doing.