13 Bible Verses about Earnestness
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As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
"Yet even now," says the LORD, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will 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 do not lean on your own understanding.
When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up. Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city." But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city. It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life. Do not look behind you, and do not stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed."
and shall return to 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 those who keep his decrees, who seek him with their whole heart.
Give me understanding, and I will keep your Law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
From Thematic Bible
Earnestness » In prayer » In seeking salvation
"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In repentance
"Yet even now," says the LORD, "turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."
38 He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.
He said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, 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 to 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 those who keep his decrees, who seek him with their whole heart.
Give me understanding, and I will keep your Law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In prayer
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 do not lean on your own understanding.
Paul » Characteristics of » Earnestness
For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,
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