'Earnest' in the Bible

For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.

who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

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.

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

For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth unto 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.

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God's own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

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

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them .