'Trying' in the Bible

So Jonathan informed David, saying, "My father Saul [is] trying to kill you; now please take care! In the morning you should stay in the hiding place and conceal yourself.

Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What [is] my guilt and what [is] my sin before your father that [he is] {trying to kill me}?

"Look! I found this," said the Teacher, "while trying to find how the plan fits together.

The king answered and said, "{Certainly} I know that {you are trying to gain time} {because} you have seen {that this matter is firmly decreed by me},

And [when it] was day, he departed [and] went to an isolated place. And the crowds were seeking him, and came to him and were trying to prevent him from departing from them.

And he was speaking and debating with the {Greek-speaking Jews}, but they were trying to do away with him.

If then I am doing wrong and have done anything deserving death, I am not trying to avoid dying. But if there is nothing [true] of [the things] which these [people] are accusing me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

[We are] trying to avoid this, lest anyone should find fault with us in this abundant gift that is being administered by us.

For am I now making an appeal to people or [to] God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it,

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now trying to be made complete by the flesh?

trying to learn what is well-pleasing to the Lord.

These [things] I have written to you concerning the ones who are trying to deceive you.