22 Bible Verses about Zeal

as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns.

You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion??ow furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you scour land and sea to make one convert, and when he is converted you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

Enter the great contest of faith! Take hold of eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the great profession of faith.

I hope, with the help of the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you soon, so that I, too, may be cheered by having news about you. For I have no one like him who would take such a real interest in you. For they are all looking out for their own interests, not for those of Jesus Christ. read more.
But you know his character, and how like a son helping his father he has worked like a slave with me in preaching the good news.

But it is a finer thing to be made much of honestly and constantly??ot just when I can be with you,

I reprove and discipline all whom I love. So be earnest and repent.

So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.

not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.

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Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting.

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

Brothers, my heart is full of good will toward them; my prayer to God is that they may be saved.

in the hope of making my countrymen jealous, and thus saving some of them.

as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.

and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns.

You have heard of my former conduct when I was attached to the Jewish religion??ow furiously I used to persecute the church of God and ravage it,

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you scour land and sea to make one convert, and when he is converted you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

He said to them, "How did you come to look for me? Did you not know that I must be at my Father's house?"

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

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

And Jesus forbade them to tell anyone about it, but the more he forbade them the more they spread the news far and wide.

But he went off and began to talk so much about it, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in unfrequented places, and people came to him from every direction.

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

I can testify to their sincere devotion to God, but it is not an intelligent devotion.

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

and how I surpassed many of my own age among my people in my devotion to Judaism, I was so fanatically devoted to what my forefathers had handed down.

I can testify to their sincere devotion to God, but it is not an intelligent devotion.

I reprove and discipline all whom I love. So be earnest and repent.

not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you scour land and sea to make one convert, and when he is converted you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

by the force of signs and marvels, and by the power of the holy Spirit, with the result that I have completed the preaching of the good news of Christ all the way from Jerusalem around to Illyricum.

But now there is no more work for me in this part of the world, and as I have had a great desire for many years to come to see you,

But it is a finer thing to be made much of honestly and constantly??ot just when I can be with you,

He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.

"I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today. I persecuted this Way even to the death, and bound both men and women and put them in prison,

Brothers, my heart is full of good will toward them; my prayer to God is that they may be saved.

"In a hurry or not," said Paul, "I would to God that not only you, but all who hear me today, might be what I am??xcept for these chains!"

For the pain that God approves results in a repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets; but the world's pain results in death. See how earnest this God-given pain has made you! how eager to clear yourselves, how indignant, how alarmed, how eager to see me, how zealous, how avenging! At every point you have proved that you are clear of this matter.

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

So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.

for I know how willing you are to help in it; I boast of you for it to the people in Macedonia, telling them that Greece has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has been a stimulus to most of them.

I can testify how anxious he is about you and the brothers in Laodicea and Hierapolis.

not wanting in devotion, but on fire with the Spirit. Serve the Lord.

He had had some instruction about the Way of the Lord, and he talked with burning zeal and taught painstakingly about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John's.

Dear friends, I was just on the point of writing to you about our common salvation, when it became necessary for me to write and appeal to you to come to the defense of the faith that has once for all been intrusted to God's people.