13 Bible Verses about Earnestness
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As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your 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 will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding.
And when the morning arose, then the angels rushed Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters, who are here; lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him outside the city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth outside, that he said, Escape for your life; look not behind you, neither stay in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.
And shall return unto the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Jesus said unto him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, you may. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
From Thematic Bible
Earnestness » In prayer » In seeking salvation
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Only let your manner of life be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
And every man that strives for self control is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
For which I also labor, striving according to his working, who works in me mightily.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In repentance
Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, you may. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Jesus said unto him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In love
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
And shall return unto the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In obedience
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In prayer
And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In trust
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding.
Paul » Characteristics of » Earnestness
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn everyone night and day with tears.
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
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