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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
11And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
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: