Diligent

This past weekend our Pastor touched on the word diligence - it was both convicting and encouraging to me; wanted to share some verses and the definition with you.

below is what Merriam Webster has to say - pay attention to the Synonyms (words meaning the same thing) and the Antonyms (words with opposite meaning)

dil·i·gent adj \ˈdi-lə-jənt\
Definition of DILIGENT
: characterized by steady, earnest, and energetic effort : painstaking
— dil·i·gent·ly adverb

Origin of DILIGENT
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin diligent-, diligens, from present participle of diligere to esteem, love, from di- (from dis- apart) + legere to select — more at legend
First Known Use: 14th century
Related to DILIGENT
Synonyms: active, assiduous, bustling, busy, employed, engaged, hopping, industrious, laborious, occupied, sedulous, tied-up, working
Antonyms: idle, inactive, unbusy, unemployed, unoccupied lazy

What God's Word has to say, I hope you enjoy this little word study as I have and will share with my children, I am so thankful for the Holy Spirit speaking through others to show us and guide us back onto the path of Holiness that the Lord desires us to stay on. Oh, so thankful for our Savior and HIS patience with me!

Hebrews 6:11 (Whole Chapter) And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
2 Peter 1:5 (Whole Chapter) And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2 Peter 1:10 (Whole Chapter) Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Proverbs 4:23 (Whole Chapter) Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Luke 12:58 (Whole Chapter) When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.
Romans 12:8 (Whole Chapter) Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
2 Corinthians 8:7 (Whole Chapter) Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
2 Timothy 4:9 (Whole Chapter) Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
Deuteronomy 6:7 (Whole Chapter) And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Psalm 77:6 (Whole Chapter) I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
Proverbs 7:15 (Whole Chapter) Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Psalm 119:4 (Whole Chapter) Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently
Proverbs 12:24 (Whole Chapter) The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute
Zechariah 6:15 (Whole Chapter) And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Hebrews 11:6 (Whole Chapter) But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him
2 Peter 3:14 (Whole Chapter) Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.