But above all things have fervent love towards each other: for love will conceal a multitude of faults.

So then Peter was kept in prison: but fervent prayer was offered up by the church to God for him.

He was instructed in the way of the Lord: and being fervent in spirit, he spake and taught very diligently the things concerning the Lord, though knowing only the baptism of John.

not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord:

and not by his coming only, but also by the consolation wherewith he had been comforted among you, declaring to us your fervent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.