13 Bible Verses about Earnestness
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"Yet even now," the Lord says, "return to me with all your heart -- with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!"
When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,
"Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.
if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.
At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!" When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city. When they had brought them outside, they said, "Run for your lives! Don't look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!"
Then if you and your descendants turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,
How blessed are those who observe his rules, and seek him with all their heart,
Jesus said to him, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
From Thematic Bible
Earnestness » In prayer » In seeking salvation
"Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that -- whether I come and see you or whether I remain absent -- I should hear that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,
Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.
Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In repentance
"Yet even now," the Lord says, "return to me with all your heart -- with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!"
Jesus said to him, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In love
You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.
Then if you and your descendants turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In obedience
How blessed are those who observe his rules, and seek him with all their heart,
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In prayer
When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In trust
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.
Paul » Characteristics of » Earnestness
For I could wish that I myself were accursed -- cut off from Christ -- for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,
Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.
For many live, about whom I have often told you, and now, with tears, I tell you that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ.
