'Diligent' in the Bible
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
So be very diligent to love the Lord your God for your own well-being.
Now the man Jeroboam [was] a man of ability, and Solomon saw that the young man {was a diligent worker}, so he appointed him over all of the forced labor for the house of Joseph.
He was diligent in every deed that he began in the service of God’s temple, in the instruction and the commands, in order to seek his God, and he prospered.
Be diligent and take precautions so that you do not neglect your responsibility in this matter. Why should the kingdom sustain any more damage?
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Whoever does not discipline his son hates him, but whoever loves him is diligent to correct him.
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.