55 Bible Verses about eagerness
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For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to lose any time in Asia, for he was hurrying to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of the Harvest Festival.
For our part, brothers, when we were separated from you for a little while??n person, though not in spirit??e were extremely eager and longed intensely to see you.
For love of money is the root of all the evils, and in their eagerness to get rich, some men wander away from the faith and pierce themselves to the heart with many a pang.
And she hurried back at once to the king and asked him for it, saying, "I want you right away to give me John the Baptist's head on a platter."
These men are making much of you, but not with honorable intentions. They want to shut you out, so that you will have to make much of them. But it is a finer thing to be made much of honestly and constantly??ot just when I can be with you,
as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.
Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,
the promise in the hope of seeing which fulfilled our twelve tribes serve God zealously night and day. It is about this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused by some Jews.
You must pursue love, while you are cultivating the spiritual endowments, and especially inspired preaching.
See how earnest this God-given pain has made you! how eager to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager to see me, how zealous, how avenging! At every point you have proved that you are clear of this matter.
Let us, therefore, make every effort to be admitted to that Rest, so that none of us may fail through such disobedience as theirs.
But we want each of you to exhibit this same earnestness to the very end with regard to your confidence in your hope,
and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,
For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,
He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.
Just as you excel in everything else??aith, expression, knowledge, perfect devotion, and the love we have awakened in you??ou must excel in this generous undertaking too.
Remind men to accept and obey the constituted authorities, to be ready for any useful service,
And who is there that can hurt you if you are eager to do what is right?
not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.
the speaker, in his exhortation, the giver of charity, with generosity, the office-holder, with devotion, the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.
This is a trustworthy teaching, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who believe in God may make it their business to do good. All this is right and beneficial to mankind.
I will also take care that after I am gone you will be able at any time to call these things to mind.
He had had some instruction about the Way of the Lord, and he talked with burning zeal and taught painstakingly about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.
Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."
In all this it has been my ambition to preach the good news only where Christ's name was unknown, so as not to build on foundations other men had laid.
for I eagerly and confidently hope that I shall never disgrace myself but that this time as always hitherto, living or dying, I shall do Christ credit by my unfailing courage.
David himself calls him lord, and how can he be his son?" The mass of the people liked to hear him.
So I sent for you immediately, and you have very kindly come. Now we are all here in God's presence, to hear everything that the Lord has instructed you to say."
As he was starting again on his journey, a man came running up to him, and knelt at his feet and asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"
A man came up to him and said, "Master, what good deed must I do to obtain eternal life?"
A member of the council asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"
When the angels left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Come! Let us go over to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has happened, that the Lord has told us of!"
And in the morning all the people would come to him in the Temple to listen to him.
So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he did stay there two days.
As they were going out, the people begged to have all this said to them again on the following Sabbath,
The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.
Cultivate these things, devote yourself to them, so that everyone will see your progress.
Now finish doing it, so that your readiness to undertake it may be equaled by the way you finish it up, as well as your means permit.
Only, we were to remember the poor, and that I have taken pains to do.
Charge them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous,
Be persistent in prayer and wide awake about it when you give thanks.
I beg you, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the love that the Spirit inspires, join me in most earnest prayer to God for me.
I never think of you without thanking my God, and always whenever I pray for you all I do it with joy,
Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.
His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"
and there is no gift that you lack even while you are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to reappear,
Therefore you must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him.
You must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him."
More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.
But we, by the Spirit, through faith wait for the uprightness we hope for.
But the commonwealth to which we belong is in heaven, and from it we are eagerly awaiting the coming of a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
