Romans 12:11

Be diligent rather than lazy, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

Cross-references · 32

• Heb 6:10–11For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Acts 18:25This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.
• Rev 3:15–16“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
• Prov 13:4The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
• 1 Pet 4:8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
• Col 3:22–24Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
• Heb 12:28Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
• Eph 4:28Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Prov 26:13–16The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”
• Prov 10:26As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
• Matt 24:12Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
• Eph 6:5–8Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;
• Acts 20:19serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
• Prov 22:29Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.
• 2 Th 3:6–12Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
• Prov 6:6–9Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
• Exod 5:17But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’
• Prov 18:9One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
• Prov 24:30–34I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
• Titus 2:9–10Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
• 1 Tim 5:13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
• 1 Th 4:11–12and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
• Acts 20:34–35You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
• Rev 2:4But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
• Isa 56:10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Matt 25:26“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.
• Col 4:1Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
• Col 4:12–13Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• 1 Cor 7:22For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
• Eccl 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
• Jas 5:16Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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