13 Bible Verses about Earnestness
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As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be fervent therefore and repent.
And now therefore saith the LORD: Turn to me with all your hearts, in fasting and lamentation.
Ye shall seek me, and find me: Yea, if so be that ye seek me with your whole heart,
"Strive with yourselves to enter in at the strait gate: For many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul and with all thy might.
Yet if my people that are named after my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my presence, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and be merciful to their sins, and will heal their land.
Put thy trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.
And as the morning arose, the angels caused Lot to speed him, saying, "Stand up, take thy wife and thy two daughters and that that is at hand, lest thou perish in the sin of the city." And as he prolonged the time, the men caught both him, his wife and his two daughters by the hands; because the LORD was merciful unto him, and they brought him forth and set him without the city. When they had brought them out, they said, "Save thy life and look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish."
and come again unto the LORD thy God and hearken unto his voice according to all that I command thee this day - both thou and thy children with all thine heart and all thy soul -
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with their whole heart;
O give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea I shall keep it with my whole heart.
Jesus said unto him, "'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.'
Philip said unto him, "If thou believe with all thine heart, thou mayest." He answered, and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God."
From Thematic Bible
Earnestness » In prayer » In seeking salvation
"Strive with yourselves to enter in at the strait gate: For many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
and press unto that mark appointed, to obtain the reward of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Only let your conversation be, as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may yet hear of you, that ye continue in one spirit, and in one soul laboring as we do to maintain the faith of the gospel,
Every man that proveth masteries abstaineth from all things. And they do it to obtain a corruptible crown: but we to obtain an uncorruptible crown.
Wherein I also labour and strive, even as far forth as his working worketh in me mightily.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In repentance
And now therefore saith the LORD: Turn to me with all your hearts, in fasting and lamentation.
Philip said unto him, "If thou believe with all thine heart, thou mayest." He answered, and said, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God."
Jesus said unto him, "'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.'
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In love
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul and with all thy might.
and come again unto the LORD thy God and hearken unto his voice according to all that I command thee this day - both thou and thy children with all thine heart and all thy soul -
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In obedience
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with their whole heart;
O give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea I shall keep it with my whole heart.
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In prayer
Ye shall seek me, and find me: Yea, if so be that ye seek me with your whole heart,
Earnestness » Earnestness giving the whole heart to God » In trust
Put thy trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Paul » Characteristics of » Earnestness
For I have wished myself to be cursed from Christ, for my brethren and my kinsmen as pertaining to the flesh:
Therefore awake and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one of you, both night and day with tears.
For many walk - of whom I have told you often, and now tell you weeping - that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ,
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