'Wholeheartedly' in the Bible
Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.'
The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh; he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me."
"Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,
When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.
I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve.
He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his ancestor David had been.
The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime.
But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel. He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.
Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God! Then you can bring the ark of the Lord's covenant and the holy items dedicated to God's service into the temple that is built to honor the Lord."
The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime.
He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God's temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.
O Lord, teach me how you want me to live! Then I will obey your commands. Make me wholeheartedly committed to you!
I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I am the Lord. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly return to me.'
I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them firmly in the land.'
The young man said to him, "I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws. What do I still lack?"
The man said to him, "Teacher, I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth."
The man replied, "I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth."