Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
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Diligence
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Jude 1:3
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
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2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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σπουδή
spoudḗ · spoo-day'
5 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
"speed", i.e. (by implication) despatch, eagerness, earnestness
Strong's KJV usage: :--business, (earnest) care(-fulness), diligence, forwardness, haste.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 12:8Strong's last: Jude 1:3
Open full G4710 profile →σπουδάζω
spoudázō · spoo-dad'-zo
3 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to use speed, i.e. to make effort, be prompt or earnest
Strong's KJV usage: :--do (give) diligence, be diligent (forward), endeavour, labour, study.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 4:9Strong's last: 2 Peter 1:10
Open full G4704 profile →ἐργασία
ergasía · er-gas-ee'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
occupation; by implication, profit, pains
Strong's KJV usage: :--craft, diligence, gain, work.
Strong's first: Luke 12:58Strong's last: Luke 12:58
Open full G2039 profile →מִשְׁמָר
mishmâr · mish-mawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
a guard (the man, the post or the prison); a deposit (figuratively); also (as observed) a usage (abstractly), or an example (concretely)
Strong's KJV usage: diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch.
Strong's first: Proverbs 4:23Strong's last: Proverbs 4:23
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H4929
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
G2039
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.
G4710
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.
G4710
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.
G4704
Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
G4704
Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
G4710
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
G4710
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
G4704
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
G4710
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
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diligence
DILIGENCE, noun [Latin , to love earnestly; to choose.]
1. Steady application in business of any kind; constant effort to accomplish what is undertaken; exertion of body or mind without unnecessary delay or sloth; due attention; industry; assiduity.
DILIGENCE is the philosophers stone that turns every thing to gold.
Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure. 2 Peter 1:5.
2. Care; heed; heedfulness.
Keep thy heart with all diligence Proverbs 4:23.
3. The name of a stage-coach, used in France.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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