'Eagerness' in the Bible
Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.
For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
So then, even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, or on account of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you your eagerness on our behalf before God.
But as you excel in everything -- in faith, in speech, in knowledge, and in all eagerness and in the love from us that is in you -- make sure that you excel in this act of kindness too.
I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.
For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.
because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them.
But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end,
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- Abandon (107 instances)
- Devotion (42 instances)
- Eagerness (19 instances)
- Earnestness (14 instances)
- Exertion (5 instances)
- Forwardness (2 instances)
- Keenness (1 instance)
- Longing (52 instances)
- Readiness (27 instances)
- Warmth (5 instances)
- Zeal (52 instances)