7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 2Pet 1:5 — And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
• Heb 6:11 — And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
• Prov 10:4 — He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
• Prov 12:24 — The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
• Prov 14:1 — Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
• Prov 20:4 — The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
• Prov 21:25 — The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.
• Prov 23:21 — For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
• Prov 24:30 — I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
• Prov 24:31 — And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.