13 Bible Verses about Earnestness
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Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.
Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
And thou shall love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding.
And when the morning arose, then the [heavenly] agents hurried Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. But he lingered. And the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him forth, and set him outside the city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life, do not look behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain. Escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
and shall return to LORD thy God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy sons, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law, yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
And Jesus said to him, Thou shall love Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.
From Thematic Bible
Earnestness » In prayer » In seeking salvation
Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
I press forward toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Only be citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith o
And every man who strives for mastery exercises self-control in all things. Indeed therefore those men do it so that they might obtain a perishable crown, but we an imperishable.
For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In repentance
Yet even now, says LORD, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.
And Jesus said to him, Thou shall love Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In love
And thou shall love LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
and shall return to LORD thy God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy sons, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In obedience
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, that seek him with the whole heart.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law, yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In prayer
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In trust
Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding.
Paul » Characteristics of » Earnestness
For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,
Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.
For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ,
