22 Bible Verses about Zeal

by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.

I had them punished and tried to force them to use abusive language; in my extreme fury against them I continued to pursue them even into distant towns.

You have heard, indeed, of my former conduct as an adherent of the Jewish religion, how I kept on furiously persecuting the church of God, and tried to destroy it,

A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you scour land and sea to win a single convert, and when he is won you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

Keep up the good fight for the faith. Keep your hold on eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the good profession of faith.

I hope, with the approval of the Lord Jesus, soon to send Timothy to you, so that I too may be cheered on getting the news about you. For I have no one else with a heart like his who would take such genuine interest in you, for most people are looking out for their own interests, not for the interests of Jesus Christ. read more.
But you know his tested character, how like a son in fellowship with his father he has toiled with me like a slave in preaching the good news.

Now it is a fine thing to have special attention paid you, if it is done sincerely and unceasingly, and not only when I am with you.

The people whom I dearly love, I always reprove and discipline. So keep on being earnest and once for all repent.

So, as you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, you must keep trying to excel for the upbuilding of the church.

never slack in earnestness, always on fire with the Spirit, always serving the Lord,

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Are you not saying, 'In four months more the harvest comes'? Look! I tell you, lift up your eyes and scan the fields, for they are already white for harvesting.

for I could wish myself accursed, even cut off from Christ, for the sake of my brothers, my natural kinsmen.

Brothers, my heart's good will goes out for them, and my prayer to God is that they may be saved.

if I can make my fellow-countrymen jealous, and so save some of them.

by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.

I had them punished and tried to force them to use abusive language; in my extreme fury against them I continued to pursue them even into distant towns.

You have heard, indeed, of my former conduct as an adherent of the Jewish religion, how I kept on furiously persecuting the church of God, and tried to destroy it,

A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you scour land and sea to win a single convert, and when he is won you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

Then He said to them, "Why is it that you were searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"

His disciples recalled that the Scriptures say, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

We must continue to do the works of Him who sent me while it is daylight. Night is coming when no one can do any work.

Then He charged them not to tell anybody about it, but the more He kept charging them, the more they kept spreading the news.

But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

But one of the bystanders drew his sword and struck at the high priest's slave and cut his ear off.

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but they are not intelligently so.

They gave the glory to God, when they heard it, and said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous champions of the law.

and how I outstripped many of my own age among my people in my devotion to the Jewish religion, because I surpassed all others in my zeal for the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

For I can testify that they are zealous for God, but they are not intelligently so.

The people whom I dearly love, I always reprove and discipline. So keep on being earnest and once for all repent.

never slack in earnestness, always on fire with the Spirit, always serving the Lord,

A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you scour land and sea to win a single convert, and when he is won you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Holy Spirit. So I have completed the telling of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

But now, as there are no more places for me to occupy in this part of the world, and as I have for many years been longing to come to see you,

Now it is a fine thing to have special attention paid you, if it is done sincerely and unceasingly, and not only when I am with you.

who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in this city, and carefully educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, as all of you are today. I persecuted this Way even to the death, and kept on binding both men and women and putting them in jail,

Brothers, my heart's good will goes out for them, and my prayer to God is that they may be saved.

Paul answered, "In brief or at length, I would to God that not only you but all my hearers today were what I am -- excepting these chains!"

For the sorrow that comes in accordance with the will of God results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets, but the sorrow the world produces results in death. For see what this very sorrow, suffered in accordance with the will of God, has done for you! How earnest it has made you, how concerned to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how much it made you long to see me, how loyal to me, how determined to punish the offender! At every point you have cleared yourselves in the matter.

His disciples recalled that the Scriptures say, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

So, as you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, you must keep trying to excel for the upbuilding of the church.

for I know your readiness to help in it. I am boasting of you about it to the Macedonians, reminding them that Greece has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated the most of them.

For I can testify how great his toiling for you is and for the brothers in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

never slack in earnestness, always on fire with the Spirit, always serving the Lord,

He had been instructed about the way of the Lord, and with spiritual fervor he was speaking and was accurately teaching some details about Jesus, although he knew of no baptism but John's.

Dearly beloved, while I was doing my best to begin writing you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write and urge you to carry on a vigorous defense of the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's people.