41 occurrences in 11 translations

'Earnest' in the Bible

And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.”

and did not inquire of the Lord [instead]. Therefore the Lord killed him and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.

He that is earnest after good seeketh favour; but he that searcheth for mischief, it shall come upon him.

And Jesus [deeply moved] admonished him sternly and sent him away immediately,

When Jesus noticed him lying there [helpless], knowing that he had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

They all paid [a great deal of] attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is what is called the Great Power of God!”

How then does the matter stand? It stands thus. That which Israel are in earnest pursuit of, they have not obtained; but God's chosen servants have obtained it, and the rest have become hardened.

And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

With earnest entreaty they begged from us the favour of being allowed to share in the service now being rendered to God's people.

For, assuming the earnest willingness, the gift is acceptable according to whatever a man has, and not according to what he has not.

But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord.

and we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he hath in you.

For I know your earnest willingness, on account of which I habitually boast of you to the Macedonians, pointing out to them that for a whole year you in Greece have been ready; and the greater number of them have been spurred on by your ardour.

According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

Let it then be our earnest endeavour to be admitted to that rest, so that no one may perish through following the same example of unbelief.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀτενίζω 
Atenizo 
Usage: 14

חרה 
Charah 
Usage: 91

שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

שׁאף 
Sha'aph 
Usage: 14

ἀποκαραδοκία 
Apokaradokia 
Usage: 2

ἀῤῥαβών 
Arrhabon 
Usage: 3

ἐκτενέστερον 
Ektenesteron 
Usage: 1

ἐπαγωνίζομαι 
Epagonizomai 
Usage: 1

ἐπιποθέω 
Epipotheo 
Usage: 9

ἐπιπόθησις 
Epipothesis 
Usage: 2

ζηλόω 
Zeloo 
Usage: 10

περισσοτέρως 
Perissoteros 
Usage: 13

προσευχή 
Proseuche 
Usage: 31

σπουδή 
Spoude 
Usage: 12

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