“Only be careful for yourself and watch over your soul diligently, so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your sons and your grandsons.

And you shall repeat them diligently to your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house, when you walk on the road, when you lie down, and when you get up.

You shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and His provisions and His statutes which He has commanded you.

The Blessings at Mount Gerizim

“Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, that the Lord your God will put you high above all the nations of the earth.

with this money, therefore, you shall diligently buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

“I myself, King Artaxerxes, issue a decree to all the treasurers who are in the provinces beyond the Euphrates River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, may require of you, it shall be done diligently,

When He killed them, then they sought Him, And they returned and searched diligently for God;

You have ordained Your precepts, That we are to keep them diligently.

The wicked wait for me to destroy me; I will diligently consider Your testimonies.

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but will not find me,

Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your presence diligently, and I have found you.

I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me.

Poor is one who works with a lazy hand, But the hand of the diligent makes rich.

One who diligently seeks good seeks favor, But one who seeks evil, evil will come to him.

The hand of the diligent will rule, But the lazy hand will be put to forced labor.

The soul of the lazy one craves and gets nothing, But the soul of the diligent is made prosperous.

He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

The plans of the diligent certainly lead to advantage, But everyone who is in a hurry certainly comes to poverty.

At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments, The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.