Bible Verses About Diligence
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Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
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Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
13And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
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.