15 Bible Verses about Fervour
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So with yourselves; since your heart is set on possessing 'spirits,' make the edification of the church your aim in this desire to excel.
Now it is fine for you to be made much of honestly and all the time ??not simply when I can be with you.
Hence I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift which you received when my hands were laid upon you;
so long as I am in this tent, I deem it proper to stir you up by way of reminder,
I reprove and discipline those whom I love; so be in warm earnest and repent.
"Go home and describe all that God has done for you." So he went off to proclaim through the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.
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.
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.
Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.
"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.
From Thematic Bible
Fervour » Commands concerning
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.
Fervour » The Call of Duty » Zeal in soul winning
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.
Fervour » Christ's zeal » General references to
"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.
