22 Bible Verses about Zeal

in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

there was not a synagogue where I did not often punish them and force them to blaspheme; and in my frantic fury I persecuted them even to foreign towns.

You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

fight in the good fight of the faith, secure that life eternal to which you were called when you voiced the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send you Timotheus before long, that I may be heartened by news of you. I have no one like him, for genuine interest in your welfare. Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ. read more.
But you know how he has stood the test, how he has served with me in the gospel, like a son helping his father.

Now it is fine for you to be made much of honestly and all the time ??not simply when I can be with you.

I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.

So with yourselves; since your heart is set on possessing 'spirits,' make the edification of the church your aim in this desire to excel.

never let your zeal flag; maintain the spiritual glow; serve the Lord;

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You have a saying, have you not, 'Four months yet, then harvest'? Look round, I tell you; see, the fields are white for harvesting!

I could have wished myself accursed and banished from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen;

Oh for their salvation, brothers! That is my heart's desire and prayer to God!

in the hope of being able to make my fellow-Jews jealous and of managing thus to save some of them.

in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

there was not a synagogue where I did not often punish them and force them to blaspheme; and in my frantic fury I persecuted them even to foreign towns.

You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

"Why did you look for me?" he said, "Did you not know I had to be at my Father's house?"

(His disciples recalled the scripture saying, I am consumed with zeal for thy house.)

Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work.

Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more eagerly they made it public;

But he went off and proceeded to proclaim it aloud and spread news of the affair both far and wide. The result was that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; he stayed outside in lonely places, and people came to him from every quarter.

but one of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear.

I can vouch for their zeal for God; only, it is not zeal with knowledge.

They glorified God when they heard it. Then they said to him, "Brother, you see how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, all of them ardent upholders of the Law.

and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.

I can vouch for their zeal for God; only, it is not zeal with knowledge.

I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.

never let your zeal flag; maintain the spiritual glow; serve the Lord;

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

by the force of miracles and marvels, by the power of the Spirit of God. Thus from Jerusalem right round to Illyricum, I have been able to complete the preaching of the gospel of Christ ??20 my ambition always being to preach it only in places where there had been no mention of Christ's name, that I might not build on foundations laid by others,

But now, as I have no further scope for work in these parts, and as for a number of years I have had a longing to visit you

Now it is fine for you to be made much of honestly and all the time ??not simply when I can be with you.

who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

"I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in all the strictness of our ancestral Law, ardent for God as you all are to-day. I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women,

Oh for their salvation, brothers! That is my heart's desire and prayer to God!

"Long or short," said Paul, "I would to God that not only you but all my hearers to-day could be what I am ??barring these chains!"

the pain God is allowed to guide ends in a saving repentance never to be regretted, whereas the world's pain ends in death. See what this pain divine has done for you, how serious it has made you, how keen to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager for me, how determined, how relentless! You have shown in every way that you were honest in the business.

(His disciples recalled the scripture saying, I am consumed with zeal for thy house.)

So with yourselves; since your heart is set on possessing 'spirits,' make the edification of the church your aim in this desire to excel.

I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.

I can testify to his exertions on your behalf and on behalf of those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.

never let your zeal flag; maintain the spiritual glow; serve the Lord;

He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and he preached and taught about Jesus with ardour and accuracy, though all the baptism he knew was that of John.

Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you on the subject of our common salvation, but I am forced to write you an appeal to defend the faith which has once for all been committed to the saints;