Quotes about Diligence
Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
- Ecclesiastes 10:18
None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
- Isaiah 5:27
And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.
- Jeremiah 12:16
Even those far away will come and build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”
- Zechariah 6:15
Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.
- Matthew 24:4
The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more.
- Matthew 25:16
The servant who had received the five talents came and presented five more. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’
- Matthew 25:20
Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
- Luke 12:35
But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
- Luke 12:45
Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
- Acts 20:31
if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.
- Romans 12:8
Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.
- 2 Corinthians 8:11