Bible Verses About Religious Zeal

that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren’s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Brethren, my heart’s desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy them that are my flesh, and may save some of them.

in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I have therefore my glorying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

yea, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build upon another man’s foundation;

but, as it is written, They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall understand.

Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you:

but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,

whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)—

but now, I say, I go unto Jerusalem, ministering unto the saints.