fervent
16 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)
Phinees our father in being zealous and fervent obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.
Elias for being zealous and fervent for the law was taken up into heaven.
KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)
But we thy people, whom thou hast called thy firstborn, thy only begotten, and thy fervent lover, are given into their hands.
OT Pseudepigrapha
Then God looked upon Adam and Eve and upon their great sorrow, and upon all they had done with a fervent heart, on account of all the trouble they were in, instead of their former well-being, and on account of all the misery that came upon them in a strange land.
Then Adam stood up and prayed unto God with a fervent heart, and said:--
"Come, go down into this place, and come not out of it until the end of thirty days, when I shall come to thee. And pray to God with fervent heart and a sweet voice, to forgive us.
But when Adam saw that he should be overcome by her, he prayed to God with a fervent heart to deliver him from her.
He then spread his hands and prayed with a fervent heart, and with much weeping, and entreated God to deliver him from their hands.
The feeling of brotherly love being thus naturally strong, the seven brethren had their mutual concord made yet stronger. For trained in the same Law, and disciplined in the same virtues, and brought up together in the upright life, they loved one another the more abundantly. Their common zeal for moral beauty and goodness heightened their mutual concord, for in conjunction with their piety it rendered their brotherly love more fervent.