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100 Bible Verses about Diligence

Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 711 helpful votes

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 609 helpful votes

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 496 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Proverbs 12:24 ESV / 400 helpful votes

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 363 helpful votes

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Proverbs 22:29 ESV / 337 helpful votes

Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

2 Peter 1:10 ESV / 325 helpful votes

Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.

2 Peter 3:14 ESV / 300 helpful votes

Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 288 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 282 helpful votes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Proverbs 11:27 ESV / 215 helpful votes

Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 194 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV / 185 helpful votes

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.

James 1:12 ESV / 177 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 172 helpful votes

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 167 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Philippians 3:14 ESV / 166 helpful votes

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 156 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 148 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

2 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 122 helpful votes

But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.

Proverbs 12:27 ESV / 120 helpful votes

Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.

Hebrews 6:11 ESV / 119 helpful votes

And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,

Hebrews 6:10-12 ESV / 119 helpful votes

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

John 9:4 ESV / 117 helpful votes

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

2 Peter 1:5 ESV / 115 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 100 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Deuteronomy 6:17 ESV / 100 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:2 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

2 Chronicles 31:21 ESV / 97 helpful votes

And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 92 helpful votes

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—

Psalm 77:6 ESV / 91 helpful votes

I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:

Proverbs 12:11 ESV / 89 helpful votes

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

Proverbs 27:23 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,

Isaiah 55:2 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

Romans 12:8 ESV / 80 helpful votes

The one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 78 helpful votes

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Mark 1:35 ESV / 76 helpful votes

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.

Acts 18:25 ESV / 71 helpful votes

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.

Psalm 119:60 ESV / 68 helpful votes

I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments.

1 Chronicles 22:19 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Now set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the Lord.”

2 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Acts 5:42 ESV / 66 helpful votes

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 66 helpful votes

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Jude 1:3 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

Hebrews 12:15 ESV / 65 helpful votes

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

2 Corinthians 8:22 ESV / 65 helpful votes

And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.

Philippians 3:13 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

Romans 12:11 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.

Proverbs 4:13 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

1 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 54 helpful votes

For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Proverbs 10:22 ESV / 53 helpful votes

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Nehemiah 4:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 28:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes

“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Proverbs 12:14 ESV / 51 helpful votes

From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.

2 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 49 helpful votes

But when he arrived in Rome he searched for me earnestly and found me—

Ezra 5:8 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands.

James 1:2-4 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Ruth 2:17 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 41 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes

For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 36 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Ezra 6:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes

May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”

1 Timothy 3:10 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 34 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Jeremiah 31:16 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work, declares the Lord, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

1 Kings 11:28 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 33 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Jeremiah 15:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

Deuteronomy 19:18 ESV / 33 helpful votes

The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,

Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 32 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Revelation 2:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Romans 6:13 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

John 10:10 ESV / 30 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Luke 12:58 ESV / 30 helpful votes

As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.

Psalm 119:4 ESV / 30 helpful votes

You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.

1 Timothy 4:15-16 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.

John 14:1-31 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 27 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 25 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

John 3:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Hebrews 4:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

Proverbs 24:30-34 ESV / 22 helpful votes

I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

1 Peter 2:1-3 ESV / 20 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Romans 5:3-5 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

John 5:39 ESV / 20 helpful votes

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

2 Thessalonians 3:6-10 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate. For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

Matthew 9:37 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;

Revelation 22:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

2 Timothy 4:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Do your best to come to me soon.

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