Topic
Heartily
2 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 2 Maccabees 4:37ISBE
Therefore Antiochus was heartily sorry, and moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and modest behaviour of him that was dead.
- Colossians 3:23ISBE
And what soever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 2 references
har'-ti-li: Occurs (Col 3:23) as the translation of ek psuches, "out of the soul," "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as unto the Lord (who sees the heart and recompenses "whatsoever good thing a man does") and not unto men" (however they, your masters according to the flesh, may regard it); the Revised Version (British and American) "work heartily," margin (Greek) "from the soul."
In 2 Macc 4:37, we have "Antiochus was heartily sorry," psuchikos ("from the soul").
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.