Hebrews 6:12

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.