16 Bible Verses about Fervour

Never flagging in zeal; fervent in spirit; serving the Master;

And so with you; since your are striving for spiritual gifts, be eager to excel in such as will build up the faith of the Church.

It is always honorable to have your favor sought in an honorable cause, and not only when I am with you, my dear children--

And that is my reason for reminding you to stir into flame that gift of God, which is yours through your ordination at my hands.

But I think it my duty, as long as I live in this 'tent,' to rouse you by awakening memories of the past;

'All whom I love I rebuke and discipline.' Therefore be in earnest and repent.

"Go back to your home," he said, "and relate the story of all that God has done for you." So the man went through the whole town and proclaimed, as he went, all that Jesus had done for him.

He had been well-instructed in the Cause of the Lord, and with burning zeal he spoke of, and taught carefully, the facts about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.

I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.

I can bear testimony to the deep interest he takes in you, as well as in the Brethren at Laodicea and at Hierapolis.

You will not have forgotten, Brothers, our labor and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God's Good News.

"What made you search for me?" he answered. "Did not you know that I must be in my Father's House?"

His disciples remembered that Scripture said--'Zeal for thy House will consume me.'

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

We must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

The story, I mean, of Jesus of Nazareth, and how God consecrated him his Christ by enduing him with the Holy Spirit and with power; and how he went about doing good and curing all who were under the power of the Devil, because God was with him.