Written by Pastor Jack WellmanBest 24 Bible Verses About Diligence
The Bible teaches us to be diligent in everything we do. It tells us that those who work diligently will most likely reap a good result, while those who refuse to work with diligence suffer the consequences. Here are the best 24 Bible verses about diligence.
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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 1:10
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They search out injustice, saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.” For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.
- Psalm 64:6
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Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
- 2 Peter 3:14
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and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel,
- Deuteronomy 17:4
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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.
- Ezra 5:8
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And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the LORD lives,’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.
- Jeremiah 12:16
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then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,
- Deuteronomy 13:14
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Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.
- Proverbs 11:27
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Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.
- Proverbs 12:27
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You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.
- Psalm 119:4
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The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,
- Deuteronomy 19:18
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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.
- Isaiah 55:2
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Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
- Proverbs 1:28
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You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 6:17
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I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
- Proverbs 8:17
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“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?
- Luke 15:8
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The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
- Proverbs 13:4
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The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
- Proverbs 21:5
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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.”
- Exodus 15:26
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The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
- Proverbs 12:24
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Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
- Proverbs 13:24
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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.
- Deuteronomy 6:7
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“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—
- Deuteronomy 4:9
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A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
- Proverbs 10:4
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