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• Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV
  Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—
• Deuteronomy 6:17 ESV
  You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
• Proverbs 10:4 ESV
  A slack hand causes poverty,
      but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
• Proverbs 12:14 ESV
  From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good,
      and the work of a man’s hand comes back to him.
• Proverbs 12:24 ESV
  The hand of the diligent will rule,
      while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
• Proverbs 13:4 ESV
  The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
      while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
• Proverbs 14:23 ESV
  In all toil there is profit,
      but mere talk tends only to poverty.
• Proverbs 21:5 ESV
  The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance,
      but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
• Jeremiah 31:16 ESV
  Thus says the Lord:
  “Keep your voice from weeping,
      and your eyes from tears,
  for there is a reward for your work,
  declares the Lord,
      and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
• Romans 12:8 NIV
  if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.
• 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV
  Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
• Galatians 6:9 ESV
  And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
• 2 Thessalonians 3:10 ESV
   For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
• 1 Timothy 4:15-16 NIV
  Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. ¹⁶ Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
• Hebrews 6:11 NIV
  We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized.
• 2 Peter 1:10 ESV
   Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
• 2 Peter 3:14 ESV
  Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.