'Trying' in the Bible

But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some asked, "What is this blabbermouth trying to say?" while others said, "He seems to be preaching about foreign gods." This was because Paul was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

Every Sabbath, he would speak in the synagogue, trying to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

Then some Jews who went around trying to drive out demons attempted to use the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits, saying, "I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches!"

The crowd was trying to kill Paul when a report reached the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

For this reason the Jewish leaders grabbed me in the Temple and kept trying to kill me.

Meanwhile, the sailors had begun trying to escape from the ship. They lowered the lifeboat into the sea and pretended that they were going to lay out the anchors from the bow.

From morning until evening, he continued to explain the kingdom of God to them, trying to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets. Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others wouldn't believe.