55 Bible Verses about eagerness

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, so as not to spend time in Asia, for he was hurrying to get to Jerusalem, if it were possible, by the day of Pentecost.

But I, my brothers, although torn from you for a short season (in presence, not in heart), made eager efforts to behold you face to face with strong longing.

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.

So she at once hurried in to the king and made her request, "I want you," she said, "to give me, without delay, the head of John the Baptist on a charger."

These men are courting your favor to no good purpose. They want to isolate you, so that you will be courting their favor. It is always an honorable thing to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, always, and not only when I am with you.

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which comes through law, blameless.

So, brothers, take diligent care to make your calling and election sure; for if you do this, you will never stumble.

"a promise which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. It is concerning this hope, King Agrippa, that I am accused by the Jews.

Hotly pursue this love, yet seek earnestly spiritual gifts, and chiefly that you may prophesy.

Note the results of this pain which God permitted; what earnestness it has called forth in you, what explanations, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what fervor, what punishment of wrong. In every way you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

but I am longing that each of you continue to show the same diligence to realize the fulness of your hope, even to the end.

Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge,

He gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify unto himself a people zealous of good works."

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; let them be obedient, ready for every good work;

Yet who will harm you if you become zealous for the good?

In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.

Be shepherds to your flock of God; take charge of them willingly, and not through compulsion; not for filthy lucre, but with a willing mind;

Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.

and endeavor to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace.

This saying is trustworthy. On this I want you to firmly insist; that those who have faith in God must be careful to maintain honest occupations. Such counsels are good and profitable for men.

So much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

So I will do my best to enable you, even after my departure, continually to call these things to mind.

He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord, and being full of zeal, he used to speak and to teach accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

"What do you mean by thus breaking my heart with your grief?" answered Paul. "For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus."

My ambition has been, however, to preach the gospel where Christ's name was not already known, so that I might not build upon another man's foundation.

So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.

"David himself then calls him Lord; so how can he be his son?" Now the great mass of the people were wont to listen to him with delight;

"So I sent for you without delay, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to speak."

As he started to go forth into the road, a man came running up to him, and knelt down before him. "Good Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

But look! a certain man came up to him and asked, "Teacher, what good thing shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

A ruler put this question to him. "Good teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

Now when the angels had left them, and gone away to heaven, the shepherds said to one to another, "Let us go now even to Bethlehem, and see this saying which has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us."

And all the people used to come him early in the morning in the Temple, to listen to him.

So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.

As Paul and Barnabas left the synagogue, the people earnestly begged that these words might be repeated to them on the following Sabbath.

The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.

Let these things be your care, give yourself wholly to them, so that your progress may be manifest to all.

So now complete the doing of it also, in order that just as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the accomplishment according to your means.

They stipulated only that we should remember the poor, which very thing indeed I was quite eager to do.

Charge them to practise benevolence, to be rich in good works, to be open-handed and generous,

Be unwearied in prayer, and keep awake in it when giving thanks.

Brothers, I beseech you, by Jesus Christ our Lord, and by the love which the Spirit gives, to help me in my struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,

Upon every remembrance of you I am ever thanking my God for you all; in every petition of mine in your behalf I am offering my prayer with joy for your fellowship in forwarding the gospel,

Epaphras, one of yourselves, salutes you, a slave of Christ who is always agonizing for you in his prayers, that you may stand firm, mature, and fully assured in all the will of God.

His disciples recalled that it is written, The zeal of thine house will devour me.

so that you lack no divine gift, while you are waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore you also must be ready, for in an hour when you do not expect him, the Son of man is coming.

"Do you also be ready, for in an hour that you think not the Son of man is coming."

All nature even is waiting with eager longing for the unveiling of the vision of God's sons.

And not only that, we ourselves, although we are grasping the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we are waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

But we are not, for we through the Spirit are eagerly waiting by faith for a hope of righteousness (a hope well founded);

But commonwealth is in heaven; and it is from heaven also that we are anxiously awaiting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,