46 Bible Verses about Zeal

And he will go there into a cave and lodge there; and behold, the word of Jehovah to him, and he will say to him, What to thee here Elijah? And he will say, Being zealous I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies: for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; they tore down thine altars, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it

And Israel will dwell in Shittim, and the people will begin to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab. And she called the people to the sacrifices of their God: and the people will eat and will worship to their God. And Israel will be bound to Baal-Peor; and the anger of Jehovah will kindle against Israel.read more.
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Take all the heads of the people and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, and the burning anger of Jehovah shall turn back from Israel. And Moses will say to the judges of Israel, Kill ye each his men being bound to Baal-Peor. And behold, a man from the sons of Israel went, and he will bring to his brethren a Midianitess before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the assembly of the sons of Israel; and they were weeping at the door of the tent of appointment And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, will see, and he will rise up from the midst of the assembly and will take a spear in his hand; And he will go after the man of Israel to the tent, and will pierce the two of them, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly: and the smiting will be withheld from the sons of Israel. And they dying in the smiting will be four and twenty thousand. And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, turned back my wrath from the sons of Israel, in his being jealous with my jealousy in the midst of you, and I consumed not the sons of Israel, in my jealousy. For this, say, behold me giving to him my covenant of peace. And it shall be to him and to his seed after him, the covenant of the priesthood forever, because he was jealous for his God; and he shall expiate for the sons of Israel.

And it will be when Elijah heard, he will cover his face in his large cloak, and he will go forth and stand at the opening of the cave; and behold, to him a voice, and it will say, What to thee here, Elijah? And he will say, Being zealous, I was zealous for Jehovah the God of armies, for the sons of Israel forsook thy covenant; thine altars they tore down, and thy prophets they killed with the sword, and I alone shall be left; and they will seek my soul to take it

And he will go from thence and find Jehonadab son of Rechab at his meeting: and he will bless him, and say to him, Is thy heart straight, as my heart with thy heart? and Jehonadab will say. It is. And it is, give me thy hand. And he will give his hand; and he will bring him up to him in the chariot And he will say, Come with me, and see in my being zealous to Jehovah. And they caused him to ride with him in his chariot And he will come to Shomeron, and he will strike all those remaining to Ahab in Shomeron till the destroying him according to the word of Jehovah which he spake to Elijah.read more.
And Jehu will gather together all the people, and say to them, Ahab served Baal a little; Jehu will serve him much. And now all the prophets of Baal, all his servants and all his priests, call ye to me: a man shall not be missing: for a great sacrifice to me for Baal; every one who shall be missing shall not live. And Jehu did in fraud, in order to destroy the servants of Baal. And Jehu will say, Consecrate an assembly to Baal, and they will call. And Jehu will send in all Israel: and all the servants of Baal will come, and there was not a man left who came not. And they will come to the house of Baal, and the house of Baal will be filled, mouth to mouth. And he will say to him over the vestry, Bring forth garments for all the servants of Baal. And he will bring forth to them garments. And Jehu will come, and Jehonadab son of Rechab, to the house of Baal, and he Will say to the servants of Baal, Search and see, lest there is here with you of the servants of Jehovah, but the servants of Baal only. And they will go in to do sacrifices and burnt-offerings, and Jehu set to him without, eighty men; and he will say, The man who shall escape from these men which I bring upon your hands, his soul instead of his soul. And it will be when they finished doing the burnt-offering, and Jehu will say to the runners and to the third rulers, Go in; strike them; a man shall not go forth. And they will strike them with the mouth of the sword and the runners and the thirds will cast out, and they will go even to the city of the house of Baal. And they will bring forth the pillars of the house of Baal, and they will burn them. And they will lay waste the images of Baal, and they will lay waste the house of Baal, and they will set it for a sink even to this day. And Jehu will destroy Baal out of Israel.

Thy heart shall not envy against those sinning: but be in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

Because for thee I bare reproach: shame covered my face. I was polluted to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's sons. For the zeal of thy house devoured me, and the reproaches of those reproaching thee fell upon me.

And the pascha of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and money-changers sitting; And having made a scourge of ropes, he cast all out of the temple, also sheep, and oxen; and poured out the small coin of money-changers, and overturned the tables;read more.
And he said to those selling doves, Take away these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise. And his disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thine house has eaten me up.

In study not slothful; boiling in the spirit; serving the Lord;

And after him Barach son of Zabbai, being ardent, held fast the second measure from the corner even to the entrance of the house of Eliashib the great priest

And grace to God, having given the same care for you in the heart of Titus. For truly he received the entreaty; and being more earnest, he went forth voluntarily to you. And we sent with him the brother whose approbation in the good news through all the churches;read more.
And not only, but also the hand stretched out by the churches for our fellow-traveller with this grace, served by us to the glory of the same Lord, and to your forwardness: Prepared for this, lest any blame us in this abundance served by us: Providing good things beforehand, not only before the Lord, but also before men. And we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things being earnest many times, and now much more earnest, with much confidence in you.

And they having heard, honoured the Lord, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many ten thousands of Jews there are having believed: and all are zealous of the law:

Just art thou, O Jehovah, and upright thy judgments. Thos didst command justice thy testimonies, and faithfulness exceedingly. my jealousy cut me off; for mine enemies forgat thy words.read more.
Thy word is refined greatly, and thy servant loved it I am small and despised: I did not forget thy charges. Thy Justice is justice forever, and thy law the truth. Straits and distress found me: thy commands my delight Justice is thy testimonies forever: cause me to understand and I shall live.

And the king will call for the Gibeonites, and say to them; (and the Gibeonites not of the sons of Israel, but they from the remainder of the Amorites; and the sons of Israel sware to them: and Saul will seek to strike them in his jealousy for the sons of Israel and Judah.)

Jehovah as a strong one shall go forth; as a man of war he shall raise up jealousy: he shall shout, also he shall cry aloud; he shall be strong against his enemies.

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, turned back my wrath from the sons of Israel, in his being jealous with my jealousy in the midst of you, and I consumed not the sons of Israel, in my jealousy.

Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood; And it was in his hearing the words of this oath, and he blessed himself in his heart, saying, Peace shall be to me, if in the hardness of my heart, I shall go to add satiating to thirst: Jehovah shall not be willing to forgive him, for then the anger of Jehovah shall smoke, and his jealousy against that man, and every curse written in this book lay upon him, and Jehovah wiped out his name from under the heavens.read more.
And Jehovah separated him for evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in the book of this law:

For our transgressions were multiplied before thee, and our sins answered against us: for our transgressions are with us, and our iniquities we knew them. Transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from after our God, speaking violence and apostasy, they conceived and muttered from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in.read more.
And truth shall be lacking; and he departing from evil being plundered: and Jehovah will see, and it will be evil in his eyes, for no judgment And he will see that not a man, and he will be astonished that none was supplicating: and his arm will save for him, and his justice it upheld him. And he will put on justice as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and be will put on robes of vengeance a garment, and he will clothe himself with zeal as an upper garment According to the works, accordingly he will recompense, wrath to his adversaries, recompense, to his enemies; to the islands will he requite recompense. And from the west they shall fear the name of Jehovah, and from the rising of the sun, his glory. When the adversary shall come in as a river, the spirit of Jehovah was lifted up against him.

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me, me also, against thee, and I did judgments in the midst of thee before the eyes of the nations. And I did in thee what I did not, and what I will no more do like, because of all thine abominations. For this the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I did judgments in thee, and I scattered all thy remnant to every wind.read more.
For this, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if not because thou didst defile my holy place with all thine abominable things, and with all thine abominations, and I will also diminish; and mine eye shall not spare, and also I will not pity. A third of thee in death shall die, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third shall fall by the sword round about thee; and the third I will scatter to every wind, and I will draw out the sword after them. And mine anger was completed, and I caused my wrath to rest upon them, and I was comforted: and they shall know that I Jehovah spake in my zeal in my completing my wrath upon them.

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: If not in the fire of my jealousy I spake against the rest of the nations and against all Edom who gave my land to them for a possession with joy of all the heart, with contempt of soul for casting it out for plunder. For this, prophesy against the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, and to the torrents and to the valleys, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me, in my jealousy and in my wrath did I speak because ye bore the shame of the nations. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I lifted up my hand; if not the nations who are from round about to you, they shall bear their shame.

And it was in that day, in the day Gog came upon the land of Israel, says the Lord Jehovah, my wrath shall come up in my face. And in my jealousy, in the fire of my wrath I spake, If not in that day shall be a great shaking upon the land of Israel. And from my face shall shake the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and every creeping thing creeping upon the earth, and every man which is upon the face of the earth; and the mountains were overthrown, and the precipices fell, and every wall shall fall to the earth.read more.
And I called to all my mountains a sword against him, says the Lord Jehovah: and the sword of each shall be against his brother. And I will contend with him with death and with blood; and an overflowing rain, and hailstones, fire and sulphur will I rain upon him and upon his hosts, and upon many peoples which are with him. And I magnified myself, and I consecrated myself; and I was made known to the eyes of many nations, and they knew that I am Jehovah.

O Jehovah, high thy hand, they will not see: they shall see and be ashamed for their jealousy of the people; also the fire of thine enemies shall consume them.

And this the sign to thee, to eat this year things growing spontaneously, and in the second year, things springing up, and the third year, sow ye and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruits. And the escaping of the house of Judah being left shall add a root downward, and make fruit above. For from Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and an escaping from mount Zion: the zeal of Jehovah will do this.

And this the sign to thee: To eat this year the self-sown; and in the second year, that growing of itself: and in the third year, sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruits. And the escaping of the house of Judah being left shall add a root downward and make fruit upward: For from Jerusalem shall come forth a remnant, and the escaping from mount Zion: the zeal of Jehovah of armies shall do this.

For the fainting not to what the straits to her according to the time of the first he made light the land of Zebulon and the land of Naphtali; and afterward he made heavy the way of the sea beyond Jordan of Galilee of the nations. The people going in darkness saw a great light: they dwelling in the land of the shadow of death, light shone upon them. Thou didst multiply the nation, thou didst not increase the joy: they rejoiced before thee according to the joy in harvest as they will exalt in their dividing the spoil.read more.
For the yoke of his burden and the rod of his shoulder, and the rod of him oppressing with it thou didst break in pieces the day of Midian. For every shoe of the shod with trembling, and a garment being rolled in bloods; and it was for burning the food of fire. For a child was born to us, a son was given to us, and the dominion shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Captain of Peace. To the increase of his dominion and to peace no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to prepare it and to support it in judgment and in justice from now and even to forever: the zeal of Jehovah of armies will do this.

Look from the heavens, and see from thy holy dwelling and thy glory: where thy zeal and thy strength? the multitude of thy bowels and thy compassions to me restrained themselves.

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Now will I turn back the captivity of Jacob, and I compassionated all the house of Israel, and I was jealous for my holy name

Also the soul without knowledge is not good, and he hastening with his feat, sins.

Brethren, truly my heart's delight and prayer to God for Israel is for salvation. For I testify for them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.read more.
For Christ the end of the law for justice to every one believing.

And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

For ye heard of my turning about when in Judaism, that in excess I drove out the church of God, and laid it waste: And I advanced in Judaism above many like in my race, being more abundantly zealous of paternal traditions.

They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them. And good to be zealous always in good, and not only in my being present with you.

For zeal, driving out the church; for justice in the law, not to be found fault with.

And when they came in, they went up into an upper room, where were remaining also Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas of James.

And the names of the twelve sent are these: first, Simon, called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James, he of Zebedee and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James, he of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, he surnamed Thaddeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, he also having delivered him up.

And he set to Simon the name Peter; And James, him of Zebedee, and John brother of James; and he set to them names Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder: And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James him of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,read more.
And Judas Iscariot, who also delivered him up.

Simon, (and he named him Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James, him of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelotes, Judas, of James, and Judas Iscariot, and he was the traitor.

All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.

So also ye, since ye are zealous of spirits, for the building up of the church seek that ye may abound.

And good to be zealous always in good, and not only in my being present with you.

By which I remind thee of the cause to light up the favor of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

And I deem just, in as far as I am in this tent, to arouse you by putting in mind;

I, if as many as I love, I rebuke and correct: be emulous therefore, and repent.