³ and they turn back unto Joshua, and say unto him, `Let not all the people go up; let about two thousand men, or about three thousand men, go up, and they smite Ai; cause not all the people to labour thither; for they `are' few.'

⁴ The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

²⁵ The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work.

²⁴ `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

¹¹ May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

¹¹ and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,

¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

⁵ And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,

¹⁰ wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,