100 Bible Verses About Diligence

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.

And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal–hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.

The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

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

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded.

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher–shalal–hash–baz.

Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.

If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

And he said, I am Abraham’s servant.

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

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

The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.

The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them,

And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the Lord, to repair and amend the house:

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar–boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.

Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord.

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.

And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.

Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?