Diligence

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Galatians 6:9 NT

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

• 1 Corinthians 15:58 NT

  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.

• Exodus 15:26 OT

  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…

• Hebrews 6:11 NT

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

• Deuteronomy 11:14 OT

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

• Proverbs 11:27 OT

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

• Proverbs 10:4 OT

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

• Proverbs 13:4 OT

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

• Proverbs 12:24 OT

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

• Proverbs 22:29 OT

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

• Proverbs 6:6-8 OT

  Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

• Genesis 31:40 OT

  This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

• Ruth 2:17 OT

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 31:21 OT

  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 OT

  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 119:60 OT

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

• Acts 5:42 NT

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

• Acts 18:25 NT

  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.

• 2 Corinthians 8:22 NT

  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.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:9 NT

  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.

• 2 Timothy 1:17 NT

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