'Earnest' in the Bible

All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.

This too is my own earnest endeavour--always to have a clear conscience in relation to God and man.

How then does the matter stand? It stands thus. That which Israel are in earnest pursuit of, they have not obtained; but God's chosen servants have obtained it, and the rest have become hardened.

full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer.

Therefore, though I wrote to you, it was not to punish the offender, nor to secure justice for him who had suffered the wrong, but it was chiefly in order that your earnest feeling on our behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of God.

With earnest entreaty they begged from us the favour of being allowed to share in the service now being rendered to God's people.

For, assuming the earnest willingness, the gift is acceptable according to whatever a man has, and not according to what he has not.

for Titus welcomed our request, and, being thoroughly in earnest, comes to you of his own free will.

For I know your earnest willingness, on account of which I habitually boast of you to the Macedonians, pointing out to them that for a whole year you in Greece have been ready; and the greater number of them have been spurred on by your ardour.

I am in a dilemma, my earnest desire being to depart and be with Christ, for that is far, far better.

Do not be over-anxious about anything, but by prayer and earnest pleading, together with thanksgiving, let your request be unreservedly made known in the presence of God.

To this end, like an earnest wrestler, I exert all my strength in reliance upon the power of Him who is mightily at work within me.

Be earnest and unwearied in prayer, being on the alert in it and in your giving of thanks.

For this reason we ought to pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away from them.

Let it then be our earnest endeavour to be admitted to that rest, so that no one may perish through following the same example of unbelief.

For this reason, brethren, be all the more in earnest to make sure that God has called you and chosen you; for it is certain that so long as you practise these things, you will never stumble.

All whom I hold dear, I reprove and chastise; therefore be in earnest and repent.