DILIGENCE

Passages on this topic · 50

• Exodus 15:26

  and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

• Deuteronomy 4:9

  Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

• Deuteronomy 6:7

  and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

• Deuteronomy 6:17

  You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 11:13

  It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

• Deuteronomy 11:14

  that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

• Deuteronomy 11:19

  You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

• Deuteronomy 19:18

  and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

• Ruth 2:17

  So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

• 1 Chronicles 22:19

  Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

• 2 Chronicles 31:21

  In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

• Nehemiah 4:6

  So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.

• Psalms 77:6

  I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

• Psalms 119:60

  I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.

• Proverbs 4:23

  Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

• Proverbs 6:6

  Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

• Proverbs 6:7

  which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

• Proverbs 6:8

  provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

• Proverbs 10:4

  He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

• Proverbs 11:27

  He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

• Proverbs 12:24

  The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

• Proverbs 13:4

  The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

• Proverbs 22:29

  Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

• Proverbs 27:23

  Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

• Ecclesiastes 9:10

  Whatever 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.

• Isaiah 55:2

  Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

• Mark 1:35

  Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

• Luke 2:49

  He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

• John 9:4

  I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

• Acts 5:42

  Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

• Acts 18:25

  This 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.

• 1 Corinthians 15:58

  Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

• 2 Corinthians 8:7

  But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

• 2 Corinthians 8:22

  We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

• Galatians 6:9

  Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

• Philippians 3:13

  Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

• Philippians 3:14

  I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:9

  For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

• 1 Timothy 3:10

  Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

• 2 Timothy 1:3

  I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

• 2 Timothy 1:17

  but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me

• 2 Timothy 4:2

  preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

• Hebrews 6:10

  For 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.

• Hebrews 6:11

  We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

• Hebrews 6:12

  that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

• Hebrews 11:6

  Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

• Hebrews 12:15

  looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

• 2 Peter 1:5

  Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

• 2 Peter 1:10

  Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

• 2 Peter 3:14

  Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.