'Earnestness' in the Bible

See what great earnestness godly sorrow has produced in you! How ready you are to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how full of longing and enthusiasm, how eager to seek justice! In every way you have demonstrated that you are innocent in this matter.

So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God.

begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints.

But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.

I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.

But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus.

And we send with him the brother whose praises for his earnestness in proclaiming the Good News are heard throughout all the Churches.