Diligence

How Nave’s arranged it

• Jesus an example ofMark 1:35Luke 2:49
• Required by God in seeking him1 Chronicles 22:19Hebrews 11:6
• Obeying himDeuteronomy 6:17Deuteronomy 11:13
• Listening to himIsaiah 55:2
• Striving after perfectionPhilippians 3:13Philippians 3:14
• Cultivating proper behaviors of a true Christian2 Peter 1:5
• Keeping the soulDeuteronomy 4:9
• Keeping the heartProverbs 4:23
• Labors of loveHebrews 6:10–12
• Following every good work1 Timothy 3:10
• Guarding against defilementHebrews 12:15
• Seeking to be found spotless2 Peter 3:14

The passages, in Bible order (46)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 15:26

   saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

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   “And said, if thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God,....

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2. Deuteronomy 4:9

   Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.

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   “Only take heed to thyself,....

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3. Deuteronomy 6:7

   And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

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   “And thou shall teach them diligently unto thy children,....

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4. Deuteronomy 6:17

   You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.

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   “You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God,.... Not only the ten commands, but all others: and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee; those of a judicial and ceremonial kind.

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5. Deuteronomy 11:13

   So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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   “And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day,.... In the name, and by the authority of the Lord, the only lawgiver: to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul; see Deu 10:12. Jarchi interprets this of prayer; but it is not to be restrained to that only, but includes the whole service of God, in all the parts of it, performed from a principle of love to him, and in sincerity and truth.

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6. Deuteronomy 11:14

   then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.

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   “What do we understand here by rain, except the words of sacred preaching? We apply this passage to the holy teachers who were preachers in Judea. Of them it is written, "I will command the clouds not to pour down rain upon her." We are …

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7. Deuteronomy 11:19

   Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

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8. Deuteronomy 19:18

   The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,

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   “And the judges shall make diligent inquisition,.... Into the case before them, into the nature of the evidence and proof that each witness brings for or against; so the Targum of Jonathan,"the judges shall interrogate the witness, by whom these things are said, well;''shall thoroughly examine the testimony given, and look carefully into it: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; it appears plainly by full evidence that he has testified a falsehood of him.

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9. Ruth 2:17

   So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.

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   “So she gleaned in the field until even,....

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10. 1 Chronicles 22:19

    Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God. Get started building the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD.”

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    “Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God,....

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11. 2 Chronicles 31:21

    He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.

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    “And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God,....

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12. Nehemiah 4:6

    So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

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    “So built we the wall,.... Went on in building it, notwithstanding their scoffs and threats: and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof; it was carried all round the city to half the height of it: for the people had a mind to work; their heart was in it, they had a good will to it, and they made haste to finish it.

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13. Psalms 77:6

    At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:

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    “I meditated by night with my heart, and I dug over my spirit. I was not thinking of my anger, I was not thinking of my enemy; but my whole thought was of God. The night, which is wont to be either for rest or for lust, was for me a thinking upon the virtues. I meditated with my heart, and I dug over my spirit: that is, I dug like a field, that there I might cast the seed of the Lord's teachings.

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14. Psalms 119:60

    I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.

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    “Let each of these considerations find entrance into your mind and check the swollen growth of wrath. By such preparations and by acquiring such dispositions, we quiet the leaping and throbbing of the heart and restore it to tranquil steadiness. This, indeed, is the implication in the words of David: "I am ready and am not troubled." You must, therefore, repress the violent and frenzied movement of the soul by recalling the example of saintly people. How gently, for instance, the mighty David bore the fury of Shimei.

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15. Proverbs 4:23

    Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.

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    “Living thus, let us watch constantly and, as it is written, keep our heart with all watchfulness, for we have terrible and crafty enemies, the wicked demons, and we wrestle against them, as the apostle said: "For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities and the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against spiritual forces of wickedness on high." LIFE OF ST.

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16. Proverbs 6:6–8

    Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.

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    Why should we dwell upon the amount of evil there is in idleness, when the apostle clearly prescribes that he who does not work should not eat. As daily sustenance is necessary for everyone, so labor in proportion to one's strength is also essential.… The Lord couples sloth with wickedness, saying, "Wicked and slothful servant." Wise Solomon, also, praises the laborer not only in the words already quoted, but also, in rebuking the sluggard, associating him by contrast with the tiniest of insects: "Go to the ant, O sluggard."

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