'Eager' in the Bible
So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law.
Those who are eager to do wrong draw near; they are far from your law.
for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.
They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
You say, "When will the new moon festival be over, so we can sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, so we can open up the grain bins? We're eager to sell less for a higher price, and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!
We're eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!"
Thus I am eager also to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome.
But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.
Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.
So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.
because he not only accepted our request, but since he was very eager, he is coming to you of his own accord.
And we are sending with them our brother whom we have tested many times and found eager in many matters, but who now is much more eager than ever because of the great confidence he has in you.
They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.
Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you can rejoice and I can be free from anxiety.
He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.