16 Bible Verses about Fervour
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In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.
So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.
It is always an honorable thing to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, always, and not only when I am with you.
For this reason let me remind you to keep ever blazing that gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,
"Return to your home, and tell them all that God has done for you." So he went away and throughout the whole city he published how much Jesus had done for him.
He had been instructed in the ways of the Lord, and being full of zeal, he used to speak and to teach accurately the facts about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.
for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.
For I can testify to his deep interest in you and in those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.
You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
He answered, "Why is it that you have been looking for me, did you not realize that I had to be in my Father's house?"
Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.
"how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about everywhere doing good, and curing all who were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him.
From Thematic Bible
Fervour » Commands concerning
It is always an honorable thing to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, always, and not only when I am with you.
So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.
In your diligence be free from sloth. Be glowing in spirit. Slave for the master.
Fervour » The Call of Duty » Zeal in soul winning
Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest.
For I was on the point of praying to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
Brothers, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for my countrymen, that they may be saved.
Fervour » Christ's zeal » General references to
He answered, "Why is it that you have been looking for me, did you not realize that I had to be in my Father's house?"
Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.