18 occurrences

'Eagerly' in the Bible

When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road eagerly watching, because his heart was trembling for the ark of God. So the man came to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out.

“As a slave who pants for the shade,And as a hired man who eagerly waits for his wages,

They shall eagerly utter the memory of Your abundant goodnessAnd will shout joyfully of Your righteousness.

And I will wait for the Lord who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him.

Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O Lord,We have waited for You eagerly;Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls.

For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things.

And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out so that you will seek them.

But it is good always to be eagerly sought in a commendable manner, and not only when I am present with you.

Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.

but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me—

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