So they said, Arise, let us go up against them. For we have seen the land, and behold it is very good. Will you sit still? Do not be sluggish to go to enter to possess the land.

so that you incline your ear to wisdom, and extend your heart to understanding;

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,

For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the upright is a highway.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work nor reasoning nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol where you go.

In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not, Zion. Do not let your hands be weak.

And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, Why do you stand here idle all day?

Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and stretching forward to those things which are ahead,

I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make sure of your calling and election, for if you do these things you will not ever stumble;

for so an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.