Eagerness

Eagerness to perform a task

1 Ch 12:8; Ne 3:20

See also Ezr 5:8; Pr 31:13; Ac 20:16; 1 Th 2:17

Eagerness to fulfil personal ambitions

Zep 3:7; 1 Ti 6:10

See also Ps 56:6; Pr 1:11–12; Pr 28:20; Mk 6:25; Ga 4:17–18; Php 3:6

Eagerness for personal godliness

2 Ch 15:15; 2 Pe 1:10

See also 1 Ch 28:9; Ps 27:4; Ps 42:1–2; Ps 63:1; Pr 23:17; Ac 26:7; 1 Co 14:1; 2 Co 7:11; Heb 4:11; Heb 6:11; 1 Pe 2:2; 2 Pe 1:5

Spiritual eagerness may be superficial and unreal

Isaiah 58:2 KJV 1900

2 Yet they seek me daily, And delight to know my ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And forsook not the ordinance of their God: They ask of me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching to God.

See also Ps 78:34–37; Is 48:1

Believers should be eager to follow and serve their Lord

Eager to do good works

Titus 2:14 KJV 1900

14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

See also 2 Co 8:7; 2 Co 8:22; Tt 3:1; Tt 3:8; Tt 3:14; 1 Pe 3:13

Eager to serve

Ro 12:11; 1 Pe 5:2

See also Ps 110:3; Ro 12:8; 1 Co 14:12; Eph 4:3; Tt 3:8

Eager to share the truth

Ro 1:15; 2 Pe 1:15

See also Ac 18:25; Ac 21:13; Ro 15:20; Php 1:20; Jud 3

Eager to receive or understand the truth

Mk 12:37; Ac 10:33

See also Mk 10:17; Lk 2:15; Lk 21:38; Jn 4:40; Ac 13:42; Ac 17:11; 1 Ti 4:15

Eager to give

2 Corinthians 8:7 KJV 1900

7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

See also Ex 35:21–22; 1 Ch 29:9; 2 Co 8:11; 2 Co 8:19; Ga 2:10; 1 Ti 6:18

Eager to pray

Colossians 4:2 KJV 1900

2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

See also Ro 15:30; Php 1:3–4; Col 4:12

Eager for God’s honour

Numbers 25:11 KJV 1900

11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

See also 1 Ki 19:14; 2 Ki 10:16; Jn 2:17

Eager to see Jesus Christ’s return and the end of the world

1 Corinthians 1:7 KJV 1900

7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

See also Mt 24:44; Ro 8:19 Creation shares the same eager expectation; Ro 8:23; Ga 5:5; Php 3:20