17 Bible Verses about diligence
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Now, therefore, perfect also the doing of this; that as there was a readiness of mind to be willing, so also there may be an accomplishment of the doing, out of that which you have.
Let the elders who rule well, be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in word and teaching.
Act as shepherds to the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for the sake of sordid gain, but from readiness of mind:
For when we were with you, we gave you this commandment, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.
or, if any exhorts, let him attend to exhortation; if any one gives, let him do it with sincerity; he that rules, with diligence: he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Therefore, my be loved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them, that your advancement may be manifest in all things. Take heed to yourself, and to your teaching; continue in them; for by doing this, you will save both yourself, and those who hear you.
Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.
Let us not become weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end:
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you expect such things, earnestly strive, by being spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace:
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or, if any exhorts, let him attend to exhortation; if any one gives, let him do it with sincerity; he that rules, with diligence: he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end:
Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.
natural Death » Motive » Diligence
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night comes, when no man can work.
Diligence » Spiritual
Do you not say, There are yet four months, and harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are already white for the harvest.
for I could wish my self to be accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh;
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved.
if, by any means, I may excite to jealousy those who are my flesh, and save some of them.
Diligence » Business
or, if any exhorts, let him attend to exhortation; if any one gives, let him do it with sincerity; he that rules, with diligence: he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end:
Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.
Diligence » Being diligent
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you expect such things, earnestly strive, by being spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace:
But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end: that you may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.
Diligence » The diligent
Diligence » Required by God in » Obeying him
Diligence » Required by God in » Instructing children
Diligence » Required by God in » Lawful business
Diligence » Required by God in » Seeking him
But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
Diligence » God rewards
But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
Diligence » In temporal matters, leads to » Honor
Diligence » In temporal matters, leads to » Prosperity
Diligence » Required by God in » Teaching religion
Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching.
Diligence » Christ, an example
And he said to them: Why did you seek for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?
And very early in the morning, while it was yet dark, he arose and went out, and departed to a desert place, and there prayed.
Diligence » In the service of God » Is not in vain
Therefore, my be loved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Diligence » Required by God in » Striving after perfection
Brethren, I do not conclude that I have already laid hold: but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Diligence » Exemplified » Paul
For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for, laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
Diligence » Required by God in seeking him
But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
Diligence » Exemplified » hezekiah
Diligence » Exemplified » Titus
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved to be diligent in many things, but now much more diligent on account of the strong confidence which he has in you.
Diligence » Required by God in » Discharging official duties
Diligence » Preserving "the faith" through teaching
Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching.
Diligence » Lawful business
Diligence » Saints should abound in
Now as you excel in every thing, in faith, and in speech, and in knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love for us, see that you excel in this gift also.
Diligence » Jesus an example of
And he said to them: Why did you seek for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?
And very early in the morning, while it was yet dark, he arose and went out, and departed to a desert place, and there prayed.
Diligence » Required by God in » Keeping the soul
Diligence » Required by God in » Labors of love
For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister. But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end: that you may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.
Diligence » Required in the service of God
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night comes, when no man can work.
Let us not become weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Diligence » Honor
Diligence » In temporal matters, leads to » Favor
Diligence » Required by God in » Following every good work
having a good reputation for good works; if she has borne children, if she has entertained strangers, if she has washed the saints feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
Diligence » Obeying him
Diligence » Illustrated
Diligence » In the service of God » Should be preserved in
Let us not become weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Diligence » Required by God in » Guarding against defilement
taking care, lest any one slight the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, and by this many be defiled;
Diligence » Required by God in » Keeping the heart
Diligence » Exemplified » jacob
Diligence » Instructing children
Diligence » Prosperity
Diligence » In the service of God » Leads to assured hope
But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end:
Diligence » In the service of God » Preserves from evil
Diligence » Required by God in » Making our call, &c, sure
Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.
Diligence » Required by God in » Seeking to be found spotless
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you expect such things, earnestly strive, by being spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace:
Diligence » Exemplified » Psalmist
Diligence » Required by God in » Cultivating Christian graces
so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
Diligence » Required by God in » Hearkening to him
Diligence » Striving after perfection
Brethren, I do not conclude that I have already laid hold: but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Diligence » Labors of love
For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister. But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end: that you may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.
Diligence » Required by God in » Self-examination
Diligence » Exemplified » Apollos
He was instructed in the way of the Lord; and, being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, knowing only the immersion of John.
Diligence » Exemplified » Apostles
And daily in the temple, and from house to house, they ceased not to teach and to preach Jesus the Christ.
Diligence » Exemplified » Ruth
Diligence » Figurative » hezekiah
Diligence » Figurative » Psalmist
Diligence » Guarding against defilement
taking care, lest any one slight the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness spring up and trouble you, and by this many be defiled;
Diligence » Is not in vain
Therefore, my be loved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Diligence » Figurative » Onesiphorus
but when he was in Rome, he sought for me very diligently, and found me.
Diligence » Figurative » Apollos
He was instructed in the way of the Lord; and, being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, knowing only the immersion of John.
Diligence » Figurative » Titus
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have often proved to be diligent in many things, but now much more diligent on account of the strong confidence which he has in you.
Diligence » In temporal matters leads to favor
Diligence » Making our calling sure
Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.
Diligence » Listening to him
Diligence » Seeking to be found spotless
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you expect such things, earnestly strive, by being spotless and blameless, to be found by him in peace:
Diligence » Discharging official duties
Diligence » Following every good work
And let these also be first proved, then let them become deacons, being blameless.
Diligence » Leads to assured hope
But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end:
Diligence » Preserves from evil
Diligence » Figurative
Diligence » Figurative » Exemplified » Ruth
Diligence » Figurative » Apostles
And daily in the temple, and from house to house, they ceased not to teach and to preach Jesus the Christ.
Diligence » Figurative » Paul
For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for, laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.
Diligence » Cultivating proper behaviors of a true Christian
so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
Diligence » Keeping the heart
Diligence » Self-examination
Diligence » Figurative » Nehemiah and his helpers
Diligence » Keeping the soul
Nehemiah » Diligence
the Reward of saints » The prospect of, should lead to » Diligence
Look to yourselves, that we lose not the things that we have gained, but that we receive a full reward.
Virtues » Business » Diligence
or, if any exhorts, let him attend to exhortation; if any one gives, let him do it with sincerity; he that rules, with diligence: he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
But we desire every one of you to show the same diligence, in order to have your hope fully assured to the end:
Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.
Topics on Diligence
Diligence And Laziness Contrasted
2 Thessalonians 3:10For when we were with you, we gave you this commandment, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.
Diligence, Examples Of
Luke 8:15But that on the good ground are those who, in a good and honest heart, hear the word, and keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Diligence, Objects Of
2 Peter 1:5-9so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
Diligence, Results Of
2 Thessalonians 3:10For when we were with you, we gave you this commandment, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.
Diligence, Rewards Of
2 Peter 1:10Wherefore, brethren, give the greater diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you will never fall.
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