'Attempting' in the Bible

Saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: because they who were attempting to take the young child's life are dead.

But Jesus saw their trick and said, Oh false ones, why are you attempting to put me in the wrong?

And every day he was teaching in the Temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people were attempting to put him to death;

The disciples said to him, Master, the Jews were attempting only the other day to have you stoned, and are you going back there again?

We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your teaching, and you are attempting to make us responsible for this man's death.

And while they were attempting to put him to death, news came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was out of control.

Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,

Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?

It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them.

My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;