'Diligent' in the Bible

And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

So be very diligent to love the Lord your God for your own well-being.

Now the man Jeroboam [was] a man of ability, and Solomon saw that the young man {was a diligent worker}, so he appointed him over all of the forced labor for the house of Joseph.

He was diligent in every deed that he began in the service of God’s temple, in the instruction and the commands, in order to seek his God, and he prospered.

Be diligent and take precautions so that you do not neglect your responsibility in this matter. Why should the kingdom sustain any more damage?

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Whoever does not discipline his son hates him, but whoever loves him is diligent to correct him.

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

For while you are going with your opponent [at law] to appear before a magistrate, on the way make an effort to settle, so that he does not drag you before the judge, and the judge does not [rule against you and] turn you over to the officer, and the officer does not throw you into prison.

There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.

as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.

So then, if also I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of him that injured, nor for the sake of him that was injured, but for the sake of our diligent zeal for you being manifested to you before God.

But thanks be to God, who gives the same diligent zeal for you in the heart of Titus.

For he accepted our urging and, being very diligent, went out to you by his own choice.

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.

only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent -- this very thing -- to do.

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

Pray in the Spirit at all times with every kind of prayer and request. Likewise, be alert with your most diligent efforts and pray for all the saints.

Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.

Be diligent to come unto me quickly,

be diligent to come before winter. Salute thee doth Eubulus, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

The word is faithful, and I desire that thou insist strenuously on these things, that they who have believed God may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.

May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

But we want each of you to continue to be diligent to the very end, in order to give full assurance to your hope.

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.