For if we be too fervent, to God are we too fervent: if we keep measure, for your cause keep we measure.

And not with his coming only: but also with the consolation wherewith he was comforted of you. For he told us your desire, your mourning, your fervent mind to me ward: So that I now rejoice the more.

Behold what diligence this godly sorrow that ye took hath wrought in you: yea it caused you to clear yourselves. It caused indignation, it caused fear, it caused desire, it caused a fervent mind, it caused punishment. For in all things ye have showed yourselves that ye were clear in that matter.

This say I not as commanding: but because others are so fervent, therefore prove I your love, whether it be perfect or no.

and prevailed in the Jews' law, above many of my companions, which were of mine own nation, and was a much more fervent maintainer of the traditions of the elders.

They are jealous over you amiss. Yea they intend to exclude you, that ye should be fervent to them ward.

It is good always to be fervent, so it be in a good thing; and not only when I am present with you.

And when they that longed unto him heard of it, they went out to hold him. For they said, "He is too fervent."

My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire that it hath always unto thy judgments.

I bear him record that he hath a fervent mind toward you, and toward them of Laodicea and them of Hierapolis.

Preach the word, be fervent; be it in season, or out of season. Improve, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.

But above all things, have fervent love among you. For love covereth the multitude of sins.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be fervent therefore and repent.

Thus will I perform my indignation and set my wrath against them, and ease myself. So that when I have fulfilled mine anger against them, they shall know that I am the LORD, which with a fervent jealousy have spoken it.

These come unto thee, after the manner of a great people: yea, my people sit down before thee, and hear thy words, but they do not thereafter: for in their mouths they show themselves, as though they were fervent, but their heart goeth after their own covetous lucre.

What great things have I given thee, O Ephraim? How faithfully have I defended thee, O Israel? Have I dealt with thee as with Adam? Or have I entreated thee like Zeboim? No, my heart is otherwise minded. Yea, my mercy is to fervent:

And as soon as the sun was up, God prepared a fervent east wind: so that the sun beat over the head of Jonah, that he fainted again and wished unto his soul that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

And he said, "I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia: nevertheless yet brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, and informed diligently in the law of the fathers, and was fervent minded to Godward, as ye all are this same day,

Also, the fervent desire of the creatures abideth looking when the sons of God shall appear;

For I bear them record, that they have a fervent mind to Godward, but not according to knowledge.

Let not that business which ye have in hand be tedious to you. Be fervent in the spirit. Apply yourselves to the time.