15 Bible Verses about Enthusiasm
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And who will be able to harm you, if you show yourselves zealous for that which is good?
With right good will, be faithful to your duty as service rendered to the Lord and not to man.
Do not be indolent when zeal is required. Be thoroughly warm-hearted, the Lord's own servants,
What does it matter, however? In any case Christ is preached--either perversely or in honest truth; and in that I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.
who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.
For I know your earnest willingness, on account of which I habitually boast of you to the Macedonians, pointing out to them that for a whole year you in Greece have been ready; and the greater number of them have been spurred on by your ardour.
Only they urged that we should remember their poor--a thing which was uppermost in my own mind.
Therefore, seeing that you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them so as to benefit the Church.
The conclusion, my brethren, is this. Be earnestly ambitious to prophesy, and do not check speaking with tongues;
But thanks be to God that He inspires the heart of Titus with the same deep interest in you; for Titus welcomed our request, and, being thoroughly in earnest, comes to you of his own free will.
Be shepherds of God's flock which is among you. Exercise the oversight not reluctantly but eagerly, in accordance with the will of God; not for base gain but with cheerful minds;
Whatever you are doing, let your hearts be in your work, as a thing done for the Lord and not for men.
Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who, because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth, has no reason to feel any shame.
It is always an honourable thing to be courted in an honourable cause; always, and not only when I am with you, my children--
I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.